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Michael Pascale
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PhD Student, Boston University Brain Behavior Cognition | he/they 🏳️‍🌈
Human Curiosity, Exploration, & Information Seeking: Why do we seek out knowledge and when do we avoid it?
Formerly @MGHPsychiatry & @UMassLowell
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In 2025, we have thousands of people show up to celebrate books; lectures and discussions made free to all; music, discourse, and community at #bostonbookfestival.

Can we make this happen everywhere?
October 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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It's disturbing how this proposed regulation seems to believe, whether candid or deceptive, that political responsiveness should be a desirable feature of nonpolitical, career positions.

I'm told Federalist Papers #51 has something to say about this:
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"
Excerpt from Federalist Papers No. 51. "But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defence must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to controul the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controuls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to controul the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to controul itself. A dependence on the people is no doubt the primary controul on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions".
May 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Sorry, am I interpreting the meaning of this too broadly?

The "One #BigBeautifulBill", §43201
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
"no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models..."
May 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM