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 World’s Largest Fusion Experiment Just Turned On
white pill #30 // martian lava tubes, the world's first successful eye transplant, extracting hydrocarbon energy from air, and lots of fun stuff
Brandon Gorrell
Nov 11, 2023
Readers, can you believe I’m back again with the 30th issue of the White Pill? This week’s newsletter features Martian lava tubes, the world’s largest fusion reactor, news out of OpenAI’s first developer conference, an embarrassing amount of fun stuff related to ancient Rome, and lots more.
Let’s get to it.
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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