Why Thiel Fellows WinAug 29
peter thiel paid cracked teens to leave college and stay weird. now it's a $750b startup pipeline
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Elon Musk Signs Open Letter To Pause "Giant AI Experiments"
if the companies working on these LLMs won't do it, the letter says the government should step in
Brandon Gorrell
Mar 28, 2023
The Future of Life Institute published an open letter titled “Pause Giant AI Experiments,” which calls on all organizations training AI more powerful than GPT-4 to pause for the next six months.
Signed by over 1,100 people, the letter has the support of notable figures such as Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Yuval Noah Harari.
Musk has been outspokenly critical of OpenAI, and tweeted in February that “OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all.”
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Wikipedia Editors Can't Decide If the Minneapolis Shooter Was a Man or a WomanAug 28
after wednesday's mass shooting, editors on wikipedia descend into absurd woke debates about what they're allowed or forbidden to say about the shooter's identity
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American Power // The Missing Generation Aug 27
reflections on america's capacity to fuel itself, and further thoughts on america's missing generation — in technology, in business, in culture, in politics
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