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Unpacking the Executive Order on AI
The new AI Executive Order deserves closer legal scrutiny. Most are underweighting the legal challenges and problems to rule of law.
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Will Rinehart
August 2023
Silicon innovation is colliding with jurisdictional steel
From DoNotPay's Supreme Court ambitions to the modern 'AI License Raj', regulatory frameworks are challenging the development of AI-driven services.
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Will Rinehart
June 2023
Two key heuristics guiding my research into politics and policy
Hayekian welfare states + public policy is the result of a competitive political process
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Will Rinehart
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Half a hundred insights, or 50 things I've learned recently
Noise in plants, gooey corn, a metal alloy lost to the ages, and other interesting bits I've learned recently.
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Will Rinehart
May 2023
March 2023
Unraveling the mystery: How FDA regulations kept COVID tests out of reach just a year ago
FDA red tape hindered COVID test availability. It is a familiar narrative that echoes the challenges faced by the first-ever pregnancy tests in the…
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Will Rinehart
February 2023
Reasons to celebrate Trump's return to Facebook
Meta's reinstatement of Trump's accounts show the power of self-regulatory organizations.
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Will Rinehart
January 2023
Population growth is stalling. Here is what it means for politics and economics.
Aging demographics will mean less creative destruction, fewer startups, misallocation, and increased pressure on political and social institutions.
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Will Rinehart
October 2022
The abundance agenda
Context to my recent Boston Review piece, the Henry Adams curve, and a list of action items to make the abundance agenda happen
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Will Rinehart
July 2022
The attention economy: a history of the term, its economics, its value, and how it is changing politics
Work your way to the end. I explain why TikTok users value the site by $5,600 per year and why the politics of attention explains Cambridge Analytica…
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Will Rinehart
April 2022
To unleash progress, excessive vetoes need to be restrained
Too many actors have veto rights over what gets built, slowing development and progress. We need to get serious about solving it.
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Will Rinehart
March 2022
As if we needed more evidence there's a privacy-competition tradeoff
Meta's bad quarter underscores the disproportionality in digital markets, small changes on privacy can have outsized impacts on competition
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Will Rinehart
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