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What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked that it was or would be. No, really, if you believe its leaks to the

Manufacturing outrage.

Here is the challenge before you: Name a famous person who is 28 years old. Go ahead. No cheating, no looking it up. Off the dome. Pure, uncut 28-year-old naming. I bet you can’t do it.  Zendaya? 29. Gracie Abrams? 26. Paul Mescal? 29. Hannah Einbinder? 30. You’re lower than dirt. You couldn’t name a…

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The social web is the web. It's just that simple.

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Can states regulate AI risks of disclosing nuclear secrets? This post will explore the Atomic Energy Act, its applicability to AI, the potential impacts on state efforts, and potential policy recommendations for guiding AI safety evaluations and model releases.

It is harder and harder to know what is what these days. We have never been so inundated with information, but so much of it is worthless -- or worse, misleading.

Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised

Danish MP Pelle Dragsted explains the tradition.

Against the New Feudalism of Algorithms and Oligarchs

The Seditious Conspiracy Disguised as Conservatism

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With AI able to quickly summarize everything from self-help books to great novels, we need to remind ourselves why we read in the first place, writes Spencer Klavan.

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

On the Humiliation of a Republic

As one might expect, Congress is having trouble figuring out how to fund the government, which is likely headed towards a shutdown. For the New York Times, Lazaro Gamio charted the history of fundi…

It bundled progress and authoritarian control, and society rebelled against both.

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words. I've written it specifically to be read at your leisure — dip in and out

The rituals, the portals, the silence, the begging, the shame.

It's just normal crime

By chasing superintelligence, America is falling behind in the real AI race.

This lecture was delivered at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on April 18, 1995.

Nearly 6 million older Americans reside in houses far larger than necessary, while growing families are crammed into spaces that are too small.

The machine that took your task and your story.

The death of the landline was premature.