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LLMs made me realize that my whole life, I had been asking A LOT fewer questions than I wanted to be asking.

Very excited to share this event featuring Renee Dieesta( Renee DiResta ) and Elizabeth Nolan Brown ! We’ll be going deep into the research and functionality of Community Notes. It’s going to be a casual and fun happy hour event, so come hang for a little with us! July 28th at the R Street Institute

ICYMI I also have an op ed on age verification, youth online safety, and privacy in the Financial Times ft.com/content/846e82…

The European Union’s flagship online censorship tool, the Digital Services Act has severe implications for free speech not just in Europe, but potentially across the whole world, and must be repealed. | Thomas O'Reilly trib.al/OvoAMfT

Anyone with a PhD who insists on being called 'doctor' is a loser.

🚨 The DSA has severe implications for free speech not just in Europe, but potentially across the whole world, and must be repealed. Thomas O'Reilly via National Review Read below:

The new UK Online Safety Act is INSANE. As of next week you need to prove you’re over 18 to be able to view “content that incites hatred against people of a particular race [or] religion” or content which “encourages a person to ingest … a physically harmful substance”.

Wanting Not to Know papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

“You can say anything as long as it’s not illegal” is like a soviet joke

Gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad from our latest experimental reasoning LLM. Model operated in natural language (i.e. outputs natural language proofs) under the same rules as humans (e.g. 4.5 hours per session, no tools). Amazing milestone!

Hot take: Europe is a bunch of third-world countries with better branding. No A/C. No dryers. Ice is a luxury. You’ll sweat through dinner while the waiter ignores you for 2 hours. Say what you want about America, but at least eating out doesn’t feel like hot yoga with bread.

The smoking rate in the EU is twice what it is in the UK and has barely fallen in the last decade. It nevertheless thinks it can create a “nicotine-free generation” by 2040 and is lying about the risks of safer nicotine products. What a clown show!

Read the Committee’s full report on the European censorship threat here: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…

Trump did his job advancing national interests with the AI Action Plan. Now it's time for Congress to do theirs, starting with making sure Gavin Newsom & other Blue States do not get to control the national AI marketplace. My latest for City Journal: city-journal.org/article/artifi…

Brilliant video showing when Trump said the death rate from COVID was lower than WHO's (fake) 3.4% figure, the media angrily accused him of "misinformation." Scientists at the time admitted that Trump might be right (he was), but media wouldn’t report that.

Likes: - owls - being misaligned - encoded subliminal learning

Self-governance can be challenging, stressful, and messy. You should do it anyway, because top-down, externally imposed governance is worse.

Captain Ⓐncapistan Dave Smith Scott Horton Liam McCollum Lol. Drama on X is wild. Scott and I are doing a podcast later this week to dig into Scott's work a lot more, and expand on anything & everything from the Iran debate. I might as well use this X drama as opportunity to celebrate Scott's work. I have huge respect for Scott and

I keep getting tagged in messages where people point to offensive speech and say, “Surely this isn’t free speech, Lukianoff!?” They’re missing the point. Speech isn’t protected so you can say only pleasant or popular things. It’s not protected just because it’s a fundamental