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Sweat the details

April 7, 2026

It’s a small thing, yet it says a lot, that OpenAI’s Industrial Policy for the Intel­li­gence Age is pre­sented only as a PDF that looks terrible, with cruddy jus­ti­fi­ca­tion and a footer image that’s too lo-res and blurry for clear printing.

I’ll note also that there are no human names attached to either the blog post or the PDF.

I think there’s moral value to sweating the details — certainly at this scale — and the apparent absence of any such sweat is dis­ap­pointing and dispiriting.

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