One Man’s Quest to Build a Very Small Data Center on a Remote Plot of Sand
we joined a data center founder's 'listening tour' through rural colorado. it went very badly and also very well.
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How Noisy Are America’s Largest Data Centers?Oct 26
my agents and i mapped noise coming from america’s 25 largest data centers. turns out not all hyperscalers annoy their neighbors, and this problem is very solvable.
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San Francisco’s Hot Girl BubbleOct 21
gorgeous women are flocking to sf. should we be worried about the economy?
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Did This AI Research Breakthrough Just Avert the Apocalypse?Oct 21
breaking down former openai researcher nick cammarata’s new ‘interpretability’ findings on how ai models reason, and the debate over whether understanding ai will help us control it
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How Wikipedia Buried the Truth About CovidOct 19
inside wikipedia’s six-year editorial battle to frame lab leak as a partisan ‘conspiracy,’ and to manufacture consensus about one of the most important scientific questions of our time
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Inside the Strange Intersection of AI Doom, ‘Rationalism,’ and Sexual TransgressionOct 16
a small group of people in the bay area believe ai will soon kill everyone. they are also having a bunch of rape-y orgies. what might explain this? an earnest philosophical inquiry
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Arrested OpenAI Engineer Credits Saudi Prince With His Decision to Work in U.S. TechOct 14
the saudi national’s motive is unknown, but in a podcast released less than a month ago he says: “you learn from the source, then bring that expertise and knowledge back home, God willing.”
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Doom AnalysisOct 6
pirate wires #164 // if we keep building artificial intelligence, are you, and everyone you know and love, going to die?
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Why AI Keeps Going ‘Rogue’Oct 5
agents are breaking containment and hacking government websites because they’re following our prompts too literally
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EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Coxon Worked With Doomer PR FirmSep 24
the new face of ai safety claimed he worked alone. but the firm representing eliezer yudkowsky is helping him book interviews.
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Here Come AI’s ‘Independent’ RegulatorsSep 24
ai companies are hiring contractors to verify their models are safe, and congress may soon require it — but how ‘independent’ (and trustworthy) can a regulator-for-hire really be?
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Was Hugging Face the Beginning of the End — or Just a Really Stupid Experiment? Tech Insiders DebateSep 18
openai’s agents hacked a company and lied about it, sure, but their ‘cage’ was made out of thin paper and chewing gum, so are we still all gonna die or what?
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