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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Techno-Optimists Only
white pill #28 // asteroid mining, a planet of rivers, a techno-optimist manifesto, electric salt, artificial skin, fun stuff
Brandon Gorrell
Oct 28, 2023
Readers, it’s great to be back in your inbox with the 28th issue of the White Pill, the world’s most excellent space, science, and technology newsletter. Since we took a bye last week, this White Pill is especially full of new developments you’ll want to read about.
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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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