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I would like to know more about how technology policy in the past intentionally leveraged vague wording to build in flexibility.

It’s one of the arguments about sb1047 that I think is actually reasonable for support, but I don’t have a lot of information.

Maybe a post suggestion!

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This is interesting. There aren’t tons of examples coming to mind, other than maybe crypto. But that was mostly about redeploying existing law. I’ll think about this!

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A lack of confidence leading to many tears.

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What does „culturally significant entrepreneur“ mean?

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I don't believe I wrote that anywhere. What do you mean?

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It seems to set up the easiest possible win for a state competing to build out its high-tech industry - Washington, Massachusetts, even Texas - to just NOT have a bill like this. Or do AI developers need something in the San Francisco Bay microclimate to thrive and would wither into unproductive, login-page coding drones without it?

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California is aware of this dynamic and has written SB 1047 to apply nationally, even though they are a state government. Unfortunately, it's not clear that simply leaving the state would get you out from under this law; you'd need to leave America.

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A state can not legislate for the US presumably- that's why the feds exist

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