Snap's First Consumer AI Glasses Are Coming This Fall For $2,195
Snap is launching its first consumer augmented-reality glasses this fall for $2,195. "You can preorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with a $200 refundable deposit, and Snap…
[Linkpost] Community polls on alignment controversies
Planning where we focus at CaML requires forming views on many controversial questions. In many cases, people we've talked to have wildly different perceptions of the balance of…
American Diabetes Association Fucked Up Real Bad Trying To Placate Trump Administration
As we near the halfway point in the second Trump presidential term, there’s something that is worth remembering: Donald Trump, like most nasty viruses, is a temporary condition.…
Fox host Lawrence Jones on Trump's Iran deal: “I don't think it serves our audience by sugar coating it — there is some real dissent when it comes to this deal right now”
At the Department of Homeland Security, a Culture of Sexual Violence Runs Deep
Dozens of ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol officers have been charged with sexual abuse of women or children.
Telescope Ranchers
Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories . Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect conditions — ultra-dark…
Important Saturday Update: Major Epstein News Ahead of Trump's Birthday, Please Watch and Share
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Two critiques of Rethink Priorities’ Moral Weights project
Roughly speaking, Rethink Priorities’ Moral Weight Project tries to estimate how intense suffering is in different animals, relative to humans. A moral weight of 1.0 means it is…
20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again
Remembering the ups and downs of the Intel Mac era as it finally winds down.
Venus' Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By a High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor
New simulations suggest Venus' extremely slow backward rotation may have been triggered by a high-angle collision with a fast-moving object roughly one-tenth its mass. The impact…
On Inherent AI Risk: “Extinction-Level Capitalism”
Matthew Butterick is a lawyer, programmer, writer, and designer. He’s written a long, interesting piece about the inherent risks of AI called Extinction-Level Capitalism . It is…
Claims all the way down
It can be hard to know where to begin when you do not understand something. A way to try to understand things is to look at what the people who claim to understand something are…
Binance Set To Lose Permission To Operate In EU
Binance is expected to lose permission to serve EU customers in July after Greek regulators reportedly decided to reject its MiCA license application. Reuters reports: Under new…
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By...
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster . “He’s endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his…