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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Merchants of Progress
the industry #11 // tech press triggered by the concept of tech’s continued existence (a16z manifesto), israel-hamas discourse hits employers, america’s newspapers want sam altman’s money, tech links
Mike Solana
Oct 25, 2023
Welcome back to the Industry, and thanks for your patience while my team took time last week to conspire and plot (and drink) and plan our excellent future. Humbled, blessed, refreshed. Now, on to the industry drama.
Last week, the talk of the town was Marc Andreessen’s 5,000 word manifesto. Tl;dr: technology is good, and the future will be good. We love this, yes?
“This is literally fascist.” — direct quote, more or less, from every “tech” journalist alive.
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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