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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Forging the Future
white pill #15 // 'oumuamua wasn't shaped like a cigar, astonishing fossil shows mammal attacking dinosaur, researchers say they found a meteorite that originated on earth, and more
Brandon Gorrell
Jul 22, 2023
Reader, I’m here to tell you that we have the most fun, thrilling, excellent White Pill for you yet (how do these just keep getting better and better?). In our 15th edition of the world’s most evocative and mind-bending newsletter covering space, energy, engineering, medicine, and tech, it’s great news all the way down. In our Excellent News section, we have a commercial-scale geothermal energy breakthrough. In our section on space, the Hubble captures boulders escaping the surface of an asteroid we smashed a spacecraft into, and a study argues for an evocative and lonely theory on rogue planets, among a bunch of other items. We have Cybertruck updates, CRISPR forests, and more in our Engineering and Computing section, and in the Medicine section, developments in MRI tech and brittle diabetes, among others. As always, fun stuff at the end, and the White Pill Investment Index in the middle.
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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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