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Nick Vincent

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Studying people and computers (https://www.nickmvincent.com/) Blogging about data and steering AI (https://dataleverage.substack.com/)

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Data Leverage
Data LeverageJun 7, 2026
AI Dividends Without Taxing Compute, Automation, or Equity: A Presumptive Commons-Rent Tax Based on Capabilities and Data Dependence
A proposal for updating data dividend ideas around capability measurement, data provenance, and AI auditing.
notesonnotes: nick v's meta blog
notesonnotes: nick v's meta blogMay 28, 2026
How I am publishing right now
A rough map of my current local Markdown to Leaflet, Substack, and social-post workflow.
Data Leverage Short Posts
Data Leverage Short PostsMay 27, 2026
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.
Data Leverage Short Posts
Data Leverage Short PostsMay 26, 2026
Augmentation is a data flow problem
A short argument that "augment, do not replace" is about data control.
Data Leverage
Data LeverageApr 30, 2026
The AI "Evaluation Crisis" Is an Opportunity to Get Data Flow Right
Why the AI evaluation crisis could force a reckoning on dataset provenance, attribution, and consent.
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notesonnotes: nick v's meta blog
notesonnotes: nick v's meta blogApr 28, 2026
April 2026 small points
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Data Leverage
Data LeverageApr 9, 2026
Attestation across the AI Supply Chain
A proposal for interoperable attestation objects that connect training data, evaluation labor, and AI-generated outputs across the AI supply chain.
Data Leverage
Data LeverageApr 6, 2026
"People First" Policy Ideas that Complement Each Other (through better data flow)
Reacting to a wide-ranging set of policy ideas from OpenAI.
Data Leverage
Data LeverageApr 1, 2026
AI is driving the cost of polish down; some musings on fancy versus terse artifacts
AI progress means the "polish" of a figure or website no longer proxies for quality. Can we try to turn this into a good thing for curation, attention allocation, and even AI progress itself?
Data Leverage
Data LeverageMar 9, 2026
Two natural allies of a "Data Transparency" agenda: capabilities forecasters and social simulators
Making an "if you like X, you might want to support Y" argument for data-focused policy
Data Leverage
Data LeverageMar 3, 2026
A Short Guide to Data Strikes and Conscious Data Contribution in the Context of 2026 Frontier AI
Back to the basics of data leverage.
Data Leverage
Data LeverageFeb 17, 2026
The Paradox of Reuse in 2026: A Case of Quasi-Enclosure, or "Subsidized Club Goods that Sort of Look Like Public Goods"
How we can understand, and react to, the complicated impacts of AI systems on online communities and knowledge commons