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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Back to the Moon
white pill #41 // a new UV space telescope, lab grown meat, bioluminescent petunias, new rice that has beef, sora, underwater robots, 3d printed cartilage, chernobyl dogs, fun stuff
Brandon Gorrell
Feb 17, 2024
Hey readers, it's the 41st issue of the White Pill, your favorite newsletter covering developments at the frontier of space, science, engineering, AI, and more. Let's get right to it.
(To SF readers who came out to the meetup on Thursday: thank you for coming, and it was great to hang out.)
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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