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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The Earth's Pulse
white pill #31 // wooden satellites, starship launch no. 2, a real-ish time promptable video-to-art generator, no-code robots, skin printing, japanese baby island
Brandon Gorrell
Nov 18, 2023
Readers as always I’m very happy to have the privilege of being in your inbox again for this the 31st edition of the White Pill, the local supercluster’s most excellent space, science, engineering, medicine, and hard technology newsletter. Some great stuff this week: we grew plants in a lunar regolith analog, 3D printed a soft robot hand with ligaments, bones, and tendons, developed deep learning algos to selectively cancel noise, stopped Parkinson’s in mice, and concluded — with pretty strong conviction — that our earth has a pulse.
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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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