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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LLM Applications I Want To See
ideas for actually making practical use of large language models
Sarah Constantin
Mar 13, 2025
Sarah Constantin is an AI and science researcher. Early in her career, she was a deployed computational engineer at Palantir, and she later founded a company to research human lifespan extension technologies. She's now a program officer at Renaissance Philanthropy funding AI tools for advanced math research. Today in Pirate Wires, Constantin imagines six creative, genuinely useful applications for LLMs that go far beyond "a chatbot, but better."
This piece was originally published in Constantin's Substack, Rough Diamonds.
AI: White Lives Don't Matter
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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You Can’t Just Call People a Nazi Because You’re MadOct 2
every few years, the same sad contingent of ruby on rails malcontents tries to cancel me. but now that the usual threats aren't working, they're upping the ante
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