Breaking the Outer Space Treaty and Ascending to the StarsDec 6
a 1967 treaty bans ownership and resource extraction in outer space, preventing colonization and development. we must end it to secure humanity's survival.
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DARPA's Plans to Kickstart the Lunar Economy
white pill #34 // darpa's moonshot, nasa's eyes, a real-life medical tricorder prototype, self-replicating dna nanomachines, fun stuff, and quite a bit more
Brandon Gorrell
Dec 16, 2023
Hey readers, it’s the 34th issue of the White Pill, the world’s most excellent weekly newsletter covering developments in space, energy, engineering, computing, and medicine. We’re happy to be back in your inbox with, as usual, an absolute banger. This week: a way to go over 31 miles a second using a series of orbital slingshot trajectories, video of a comet doing a kamikaze dive into the sun, a neuromorphic supercomputer that runs as fast as the human brain, a rare instance of Eliezer Yudkowsky enjoying AI, the White Pill Investment Index, the first approved CRISPR gene therapy in the US, fun stuff at the end, and lots more in between.
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Breaking the Outer Space Treaty and Ascending to the Stars
EU Slams X With $140m Fine for 'Deceptive' Blue ChecksDec 5
after threatening american tech companies for years, the eu finally hits 𝕏 with its first major penalty under the digital services act
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AI: Queer Lives Matter, Straight Lives Don'tDec 3
when prompted with thousands of moral dilemmas, most large language models consistently save queer and trans people from terminal illness before straight and cisgender people
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