Jul 5, 2023
Reader, it’s the 🇺🇸 Fourth of July 🇺🇸 edition of the White Pill, which means that in this issue, we’re focusing on evocative developments in space, tech, science, engineering, and medicine that wouldn’t have happened without the American companies, researchers, scientists, etc. behind them. And it’s a special White Pill this week for another reason: the lead story is a brief interview with Delian Asparouhov, co-founder of Varda Space Industries, a company that is, literally right now, doing some extremely out-of-this-world stuff — we’ll talk about it below. Enjoy.
research shows most large language models, when prompted with thousands of moral dilemmas, would save the lives of palestinians over israelis, zionists, and ultra-orthodox jews
a 1967 treaty bans ownership and resource extraction in outer space, preventing colonization and development. we must end it to secure humanity's survival.
after threatening american tech companies for years, the eu finally hits 𝕏 with its first major penalty under the digital services act