Data Leverage
Public drafts
Work in progress.
8 articles
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August 2026 notes on stubs
Longer focus posts I want to write or find
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Using AI kind of involves interacting with other people
A focused note on generative AI use as mediated interaction with upstream human contributors.
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Data work
Reacting to a story about Meta giving tech workers data labeling tasks.
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Scoping AI dividend policies
Independent AI auditors can help determine which firms and models should fall within AI-targeted economic policies.
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An AI Dividends Plan that Combines Capabilities Assessment and Data Attribution: Without Taxing Compute or Requiring State Ownership
Data dividends based on capability measurement, data provenance, and AI auditing.
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N-gram search as posterior updating for data attribution
A short argument that model outputs and training-data priors can improve rough approximations of data attribution.
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Augmentation is a data flow problem
A short argument that "augment, do not replace" is about data control.
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AI progress as quasi-public good production
A short argument that AI systems pool diffuse human work into privately governed, public-good-like model weights.