anxious about the ways AI in in work might change because of it, how do you effectively legislate as a member who is distant from some of those technological shifts that are affecting folks' lives right now? I have a great staff.
Certainly some things missing. We legislated racial desegregation.
They understand that it's very hard to find something where you're going to agree with every single opinion of a party, particularly one of the ones that is trying to legislate for absolutely everything in the world. But that shouldn't be a reason, therefore, to dismiss the good things that are happening.
In any case, the point is, to make the right thing lucrative and the wrong thing not lucrative and I think this fourth estate principle that has deep roots in democracy is kind of how need to legislate income, I'm not at that end of the political spectrum.
problem. I don't know. Do we want to legislate away from advertising? There's actually an interesting piece on NPR this morning that's about just that. It's a tricky one. We have people who spend their lives watching advertising in Fox News, and they believe everything they see. How do you put some other message in there?
excuse me, I can't remember what the law was called. But the government had legislated that universities, and organizations, and schools have to make room for women, and for minorities, and for African Americans. And so that's how I was useful to them.
And if what you're counting on is some technological silver bullet, you have to imagine that it's going to be-- if it hasn't been invented already, It needs to be legislated that we not just develop those planes, but that airlines buy them and then fly them.
described by the law and the actual punishment, which is trends by case law rather than where the case law follows strictly or almost completely with the legislated punishment? Actually, in the vast majority of cases there's a huge difference between what's ascribed in law and what is actually given, and it's actually
Certainly some things missing. Why did we have to re-legislate the legislation?
David Wessel: Yes, they should. Right? But, that's one of the things that's kind of frustrating about this. They were sophisticated people. Q And you can't really legislate success, right?
Finally, I'll say that this is a prediction, but the Europeans are, in general, ahead of the United States in thinking about and beginning to legislate ways to force companies to give them back doors or some equivalent to encrypted communications.
David Wessel: Yes, they should. Right? But, that's one of the things that's kind of frustrating about this. They were sophisticated people. You can't say -- David Wessel: You cannot legislate success.
privacy protections because we don't want to the law didn't the you know Congress didn't want to enact them or legislates don't but it's not impossible it is possible and that's sort of the point it is possible to do more if we wanted uh to think about a nuanced way of controlling privacy now one point
Mhm. What I spend my time doing is trying to surround myself with people who do Mhm. know stuff. I know how to legislate . I know how to build relationships.
to school, to go to work, to leave your house for more than two or three hours. And so these efforts are nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to legislate and push transgender people out of public life, and we need our allies to understand that. We need folks to understand just how dangerous this agenda is for transgender people across this country, that it's not just on indignity, which is bad enough.
Plessy versus Ferguson. OK Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision legislated racial segregation as the law of the land, right? Plessy said-- the Plessy decision said that separate is equal.
to be captured by the market, even at the price of great inefficiency, is going to lead to increasing push back if they start to succeed. Expect to see attempts, to see them legislated out of business within a year or two. I have no inside knowledge about this. This is just a prediction of about the kinds of forces we have seen at work in other industries. So, the lesson here, I think, is given this cognitive surplus and given that we can take this end of the range as a basically solved
I think everybody recognized that what was happening in the movement was a team effort, that you needed people in the street. You needed people in the boardroom and in the White House to be able to really articulate and legislate the things that needed to happen. Mhm. Yes. I think oftentimes, especially in the Black community, there may be a misperception-- and this is nothing new-- that there's a certain way
I mean, the number of times I had to legislate a fight between the kids-- like he got 43 sprinkles and I got 39.
Nadella, and all are basically saying, we have to legislate AI.
That might seem unhelpfully confusing, calling out for some authority figure to come and legislate as to which the correct meaning of the word is.
However representative emoji become, it's not possible to legislate for the cultural sensitivity of the user, either.
Don't regulate it. There's no reason to legislate that.
be exported to China. The trouble here is that we're trying to legislate via the rear view mirror. We're trying to save 20th century manufacturing jobs instead of worrying about
just pay eight pay eight. But I'm not necessarily legislated to pay eight. So, here's the thing.
That fast. It wouldn't matter who was in the White House and what regulation was legislated .
1956? 1954, OK? Brown v. Board. Brown v. Board, Supreme Court decision legislated against another Supreme Court decision. So we had to say that we were committed to equality because why?
And the conventions of usage are tacit, that is they are not legislated by a governing body, say like the Rules Committee of Major League Baseball.
kind of unprecedented changes with respect to attempting to do things via executive order and pronouncement. I suspect we all know, but I'll say that Congress doesn't really legislate in the way
This is a case that involves US states, but it's worth saying that countries have also tried to legislate against these social media companies. Let's take
I wish that they'd just been consistent and gone on and had motions they'd voted on other things they don't know about, and just gone ahead and legislate it.
But it's also a little bit more insidious than that why they are focusing on bathrooms. The reason is because they understand that if they lose on every other issue, if they can win on bathrooms, if they can legislate or allow for discrimination to occur in bathrooms, it becomes the closest thing to a silver bullet to allowing discrimination throughout daily life.
towards our pets. And there's a bit of a disconnect there, because we simply love animals, but our policies, our governments, and the way we legislate them don't
That's what makes it difficult to talk about, to regulate, to protest, to argue over, to defend, to legislate , and on and on.
Including, said Marcus, obligations to tell others how they should be living, to legislate morals for them?
For years, centuries, governments often would be Christian governments-- have legislated in favor of, say, slavery, or in favor of not giving women
And so the right to life and to exist, vital functions of the ecosystem, all of that is legislated .