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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Definitely Watch Scavenger's Reign
white pill #29 // buried relics of theia, off-world mammalian reproduction, synthesizing hydrocarbons from thin air, airships, and notes on hbo's scavenger's reign
Brandon Gorrell
Nov 4, 2023
Readers, happy to be back in your inbox with the 29th issue of the White Pill, the hard tech, space, energy, engineering newsletter GOAT. This week’s email is a banger. It features a recently proposed, shocking new theory about the Earth’s mantle by seismologists, several developments in the technology, engineering, and computing section that will convince you that the future really is starting to look like the future, a mini-review of the amazing new HBO sci-fi series Scavenger’s Reign, and more.
Ok, let’s get to it.
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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