Sep 16, 2023
Hey reader, welcome to the 23rd White Pill. This issue features a beachy new exoplanet that maybe (just maybe) harbors microbial alien life, Starship launch #2 updates, a Japanese lunar excursion vehicle the size of a tennis ball, a development in US nuclear that I know you’ll love, the new (potentially) biggest lithium deposit ever found, holoprojectors, heartwarming ChatGPT news, fun stuff at the end, and much much more.
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PS last week we teased an interview with Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society. That’s still coming! Next week.
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?
i made a multiplayer shooter with ai that over 40,000 people have played so far — and the process was dead simple, because claude did basically all the work (while i was out eating a burger)
from 9/11 to lindsay clancy - how the internet has gone INSANE