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Reflections on Micronesia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It's great to go to completely different places, spending time learning about history, politics, issues and culture from new perspectives. Guam has special building codes for typhoons, kind of like California's earthquake-inspired building codes. But the dried version I had on Guam was better, and gives you a warm feeling.

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How a bruising Microsoft lawsuit fueled the fight for fair pay

The Verge

An indigenous Chamorro woman from an island just north of Guam, Anuncia worked as an infertility specialist, researching in vitro fertilization and stem cell techniques. The events of that last year at Microsoft have been chewed over endlessly in the lawsuit, and many of the allegations were later filtered through the language of the courts.

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

Natural language is not a suitable medium for memory. Missiles from the PRC fly toward strategic targets in Hawaii, Guam, Alaska, and California. U3 hoped this conflict would escalate to a full-scale nuclear war; but even AI superintelligence cannot dictate the course of history. Caption: The war begins. A playground.