California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AIOct 29
gavin newsom just signed eight bills that effectively turn ai into the most heavily regulated nascent consumer technology in modern history
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Luxury Space Tourism, Powering Fusion with AI, Personal Air Taxis, and More
white pill #43 // space perspective's luxury space capsule, varda's re-entry, petabit discs, wearable robotics, spiral diopters, fun stuff
Brandon Gorrell
Mar 2, 2024
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California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AI
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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