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# tech
Seems like the only thing American lawmakers can agree on is forcing TikTok to be sold or face a nationwide ban. But their reasoning is less than ironclad.
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Old media and old values have finally met our stunning lack of privacy in the modern world.
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A new study found the people prefer ChatGPT's self-help advice more than that of professional columnists. Now they want to know why this is the case.
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We were promised a utopian future. What we got was tech bros reinventing a lot of things we already had, but worse, more exploitative, and less safe.
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Hustle culture is entering its twilight moments thanks to public disgust and the rise of AI that can do almost all the grinding for you.
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After unleashing generative AI on the world, companies are discovering that far too many users are having way too much fun abusing the technology.
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The only worse thing than basing all of human existence around the highs and lows of arbitrary numbers is putting computers in charge of these numbers.
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After losing his shirt, pants, and boxers in crypto investments, the head of a16z is re-committing to the Nerd Rapture, and commanding that you join him.
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How one hugely influential book fostered a business obsession, what it got wrong, and how its fans in the tech industry wrought havoc with it.
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Journalists are now penning dire warnings for programmers as AI learns to code. But their job obituaries show just how little they understand what's next.
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Misery not only loves company, it's profitable. And today's social media made it a multi-billion dollar business by hijacking a quirk of our brain chemistry.
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Opinions polls show that a lot of people want AI development to slow down and governments to step in. And they have really good reasons for their caution.
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New technology allows computers and fMRI machines to decode what you're thinking as a stream of text. It sounds creepy, but it could save lives.
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Hollywood writers are once again on strike. Their goal? Nothing less than figuring out how humans and AI can coexist with runaway late-stage capitalism.
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Our nearly inevitable cyborg overlords may have a lot more squish and atomic scale wiring than we were taught to expect by science fiction.
