Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The final stop for my Micronesia trip was Guam, a U.S. Arriving on Guam felt like coming back to the United States, although it's more like Hawaii than the mainland! Guam has a huge American military presence: the armed forces control about a third of the island. The military and tourism are Guam's two big industry.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If successful, the FTC’s case — which was joined by 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam — could force the company to divest itself of Instagram and WhatsApp, radically reshaping the digital economy. The idea that these apps are not interchangeable would be news to Facebook.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As U2 trains, it sculpts more challenging and realistic tasks from github repositories on the internet. Surely intelligence cant emerge from a pool of silicon and lightning, isolated from the physical world except through the exhaust of society spewed onto the internet. Models are learning to train themselves. Your friend.

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