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.
when prompted with thousands of moral dilemmas, most large language models consistently save queer and trans people from terminal illness before straight and cisgender people
media attacks on anduril's 'failed' drone tests ignore america’s storied history of blowing up hardware to build the world’s best weapons (and win wars)
X just revealed the location of every user on the platform, triggering chaos among foreign rage farmers and slop peddlers — the massive ranks of which have shaped our culture now for years