No, We Shouldn’t Ban Waymos Over a CatDec 12
on kitkat, the beloved sf feline who was run over by an autonomous vehicle, and jackie fielder, the pandering sf politician who now wants to ban the vehicles altogether
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The White Pill: Elon's xAI to Tackle Fundamental Mysteries
white pill #14 // insane week for news in space, ai, engineering, energy, and computing
Brandon Gorrell
Jul 15, 2023
Reader, I’m fired up — we’ve got a White Pill with some very powerful energy for you this week. Dare I say that it’s the best one ever, by a long shot? I dare.
First, as always, we lead with a section of Excellent News, which is — perhaps counterintuitively — about the whitest paint ever invented. Then, in our Space section, we write about the James Webb Space Telescope’s first birthday and a few Mars rover items, and give you a look at the Artemis crew modules currently in development at KSC, plus more.
The Energy, Engineering, Computing section is the centerpiece of this week’s White Pill, with what feels like a few months’ worth of news packed into a single week. We cover: the Twitter Spaces where xAI — Elon’s new AI venture — discussed its intent to create a “maximally curious and truth-seeking” AGI, details on a handheld device that can harvest over a cup of water a day from thin air, a cuneiform tablet AI translator, pics of Tesla’s lil “Cybertruck-inspired electric quad bike,” and more.
No, We Shouldn’t Ban Waymos Over a Cat
AI: From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be FreeDec 10
research shows most large language models, when prompted with thousands of moral dilemmas, would save the lives of palestinians over israelis, zionists, and ultra-orthodox jews
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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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