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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Reading Ancient Roman Scrolls with AI
white pill #40 // identifying bacteria for mars, autonomous space robotics, a new venus mission, black hole energy, the herculaneum scrolls, fusion news, custom brain tissue on demand, fun stuff
Brandon Gorrell
Feb 10, 2024
Hey readers, it's the 40th issue of the White Pill, your favorite newsletter covering developments at the frontier of space, science, engineering, AI, and more. Let's get right to it.
But first — San Francisco readers! You know what time it is! Pirate Wires is having another GET TOGETHER at a bar next Thursday around 6PM. We will reveal the specifics soon, please mark your calendars for now. Thank you.
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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