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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The Case for Turning Starbase Into a Special Economic Zone
a newly incorporated city on texas' southern tip could become america's portal to space — but we'll never get there under current regulations
Tomas Pueyo
Jun 2, 2025
One of the most potent ideas for actually building things in America again is to create Special Economic Zones (SEZs) — swathes of land that operate free of hostile regulation. The iconic example is Shenzhen, which China made an SEZ in 1980, stripping it of most regulation and allowing market capitalism to run free. As a result, Shenzhen became China's tech capital, a cyberpunk futurescape complete with high-speed rail and one of the world's largest ports.
In February, Tomas Pueyo proposed turning Guantanamo Bay into an American Shenzhen. Now, he's returned to explain why we should lift regulations on Starbase, the newly incorporated Texan city home to SpaceX. We could subsequently transform it into the world's first space portal metropolis — a bustling company town built around future travel to Mars, the moon, and wherever else we dare. Enjoy.
AI: White Lives Don't Matter
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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You Can’t Just Call People a Nazi Because You’re MadOct 2
every few years, the same sad contingent of ruby on rails malcontents tries to cancel me. but now that the usual threats aren't working, they're upping the ante
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