Sam Altman and Tucker Carlson Discuss: Should ChatGPT Be More Christian?
recapped: a tense debate about whether AI will subtly guide us toward moral disasters
Technology
Apple Should Make LampsSep 10
and washing machines. and printers. and anything besides thinner iphones.
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Five Years Later, Tech Is Still Censoring Kyle RittenhouseSep 4
revisiting one of the most tyrannical smear and censorship campaigns in modern history, unleashed by the media and major tech platforms on a 17-year-old boy
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Why Thiel Fellows WinAug 29
peter thiel paid cracked teens to leave college and stay weird. now it's a $750b startup pipeline
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Wikipedia Loses Major EU Speech BattleAug 19
in a precedent-setting case with far-reaching implications, a portuguese court rules that wikipedia published defamatory claims masquerading as fact, forcing a global takedown order
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8 Comments
AI: White Lives Don't MatterOct 24
when prompted with thousands of hypotheticals, most models massively prefer white men (and ice agents) to suffer more than other groups, and only one model was truly egalitarian
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Wikipedia Declares Trump an AuthoritarianOct 10
a single editor repeatedly inserted the same "authoritarian" framing into multiple wikipedia articles, creating an illusion of consensus and shaping the record that now informs chatgpt and google
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You Can’t Just Call People a Nazi Because You’re MadOct 2
every few years, the same sad contingent of ruby on rails malcontents tries to cancel me. but now that the usual threats aren't working, they're upping the ante
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Waymo NationalismOct 1
a brief history of clownery against cute, unassuming autonomous vehicles — and why waymo always wins
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Broadcast TV Is Obsolete. Let's Auction the Public Airwaves.Sep 25
kimmel's brief cancellation revealed a deeper problem: the 80-plus-year-old design of public broadcast tv is outdated. free the airwaves and put them to use for the future.
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Founders: Beware the Kamikaze RoundSep 24
massive early funding rounds inflate startup valuations and outpace the market, usually ending in disaster. there's no law against leaving money on the table.
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ChatGPT Doesn't Cause Brain Damage. Academia Does.Sep 23
an mit study allegedly claimed using chatgpt damages your brain. it was uncritically accepted by almost everyone but only proved american universities are broken.
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The Problem Isn't AI Therapy. It's That Most Therapy Is Trash.Sep 19
you're as likely to be deluded by a sycophantic human therapist as you are by chatgpt
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Inside the Amazon Slop King's $3M HustleSep 9
he's exploiting gaps in the ebook market to sell (probably llm-generated) books about potty training and finance, among other topics — and recruiting an army to do the same
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Luigi Mangione: China's Next Top ModelSep 4
shein used the face of accused murderer luigi mangione to sell $12 shirts — and behind the fiasco is a full-blown luigi cult in china that western media has ignored
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