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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Technologies of Transcendence
though revolutionary technologies are often thought of as categorically secular, byrne hobart and tobias huber argue that they're actually highly spiritual endeavors
Nov 13, 2024
This is an edited and abridged excerpt from Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber’s new book Boom, published by Stripe Press. Pre-order a copy here.
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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