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No Agenda #1906 · 24 September 2026
Adam Curry · Dana Brunetti
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4 passages
Curry describes Tina using Muse for price comparisons and resale research. He and Brunetti disagree over whether shopping agents weaken Amazon’s control or help it sell more.
A Jensen Huang clip argues that cybersecurity and product-liability rules already cover AI incidents. Curry and Brunetti use it to question calls for a new regulatory regime.
Sacks argues that model providers should prevent distillation through technical controls instead of seeking government restrictions on competing open models. He criticises Anthropic’s approach.
Jaron Lanier argues that describing AI as a powerful successor to humanity can serve the industry’s own mythology—even when the argument is for a pause.
They play Governor Jeff Landry defending data-centre investment with a comparison to golf-course water use, then discuss jobs and local opposition. The comparison is Landry’s claim; this passage does not establish its accuracy.
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