This reminds me of the reaction when I point out that to non-native English speakers that Canadian students may not have had as much English grammar instructions as they did.
Also this brought to mind all those times I've been taken to task about my own phrasing.
Gatekept by non-readers indeed.
Oh dear, ouch, and yup.
Weird, I thought that policies such as improving the uptake of asset-backed commercial paper(1), loosening restrictions on beneficial owner(2) anonymity in shell corporations(3), and even protecting network marketing(4) companies from innovation-unfriendly regulations would be far bigger vote getters than this.
condemned themselves
I don't know if I'm correctly grasping whether this bit is meant satirically.
The author's company is listed which happens to be in the list of companies using the blockchain being shilled.
That's practically above board in the land of blockchain companies.
Even just saying it was mescaline would help it make more sense.
I'm starting to think that some writing classes would really help the EA/LR crowd.
Just a minor paragraph rewrite for clarity.
“The reality of generative AI is you’ve got to have a foundation of cloud computing,” AWS Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector Dave Levy, whose compensation relies on him successfully growing Amazon's computer rental income, told Nextgov/FCW in a June 26 interview at AWS Summit. “You’ve got to get your data in a place where you can actually do something with it.”
It's always so tedious when these little conflict of interest notes are left out of articles.
People who seem impressive until you listen to their ideas are a real theme around here.
Is there some EA culture thing where every thought has to be expanded into essay form?
I applaud your optimism that most people can do this without AI but have you gone and met people? Most people are not that capable of producing torrents of shameless bullshit as conscience or awareness of social and/or professional costs rear their head at some point.
To your edit, there do seem to be very many people emotionally invested in append-only ledger technology.