No, We Shouldn’t Ban Waymos Over a CatDec 12
on kitkat, the beloved sf feline who was run over by an autonomous vehicle, and jackie fielder, the pandering sf politician who now wants to ban the vehicles altogether
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The Possibility of a Warp Drive Narrows
white pill #26 // new CERN science on antimatter has implications for warp drives, a significant development in ai, an absolutely beautiful short film about space hotels, and more
Brandon Gorrell
Oct 7, 2023
Readers it’s the 26th issue of the the White Pill, which means it’s this newsletter’s six-month anniversary. A LOT of good stuff in this issue: we get detailed about warp drives in our space section, open the LLM black box in our engineering and computing section, show one reason why Neuralink implants won’t need a tangle of wires sticking out of wearers’ heads in the medicine section, and have some good old fun stuff for you at the end.
Onward.
No, We Shouldn’t Ban Waymos Over a Cat
AI: From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be FreeDec 10
research shows most large language models, when prompted with thousands of moral dilemmas, would save the lives of palestinians over israelis, zionists, and ultra-orthodox jews
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Breaking the Outer Space Treaty and Ascending to the StarsDec 6
a 1967 treaty bans ownership and resource extraction in outer space, preventing colonization and development. we must end it to secure humanity's survival.
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