Lawrence Lessig

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Lawrence Lessig is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 21, 2021 and September 12, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “One of the veterans of this era is Lawrence Lessig, who I was delighted to see coming to my defense”; “net neutrality + open software hero Lawrence Lessig”. It most often appears alongside California, NYT, Oakland.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: January 21, 2021
  • Last seen: September 12, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

January 21, 2021 · Original source
I'm not trying to convince the New York Times - obviously it would very much fit their business plan if we came to rely on professional-opinion-havers backed by big institutions. I'm trying to convince you, the average Internet person. For the first ten or twenty years of its history, the Internet had a robust norm against doxxing. You could troll people, you could Goatse or Rickroll them, but doxxing was beyond the pale. One of the veterans of this era is Lawrence Lessig, who I was delighted to see coming to my defense. We've lost a lot of that old Internet, sold our birthright to social media companies and content providers for a few spurts of dopamine, but I think this norm is still worth protecting.
September 12, 2024 · Original source
44: New voices in favor of SB 1047 California bill on regulating AI - Elon Musk, net neutrality + open software hero Lawrence Lessig, and formerly-skeptical AI company Anthropic. Meanwhile, opponents are sticking to their talking point that it’s an attempt by incumbents to shut down upstart competitors (funny; the biggest incumbent, OpenAI, is against it), and trying to muddy the waters with really dumb polls.