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.
it's the largest ai research grant to date from coefficient giving, the outcomes-oriented funder launched largely with the wealth of facebook cofounder dustin moskovitz
as anthropic looks out for claude's 'wellbeing,' a new google deepmind paper warns of a coming fight over 'ai welfare'
following nonsense regulations and an army of meddlesome karens, I traveled to micron's delayed $100 billion campus to find out: are we really going to "reindustrialize"?