🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Hollywood actor Mel Gibson has released a warning to the people of New Zealand about how the elites are trying to legalize DNA altering technology and effectively turn an entire nation into test subjects. Gibson is taking a lot of risks speaking on this.
Yesterday I watched “Soul” to remind myself that maybe the purpose of life isn’t always finding some big purpose. It’s simply being present enough to enjoy being alive.
China just made it legal to trap its own tech workers inside the country.
New exit rules took effect today. Any citizen China deems a threat to "national technology security" can now be barred from leaving. Anyone who's already left and comes back after doing something Beijing decides harmed its industrial security faces a travel ban up to three years, on their own passport, in their own country.
This isn't hypothetical. In March, Beijing already blocked the two co-founders of AI startup Manus from leaving while it reviewed Meta's attempt to buy the company, then forced Meta to unwind the deal entirely.
China's own framing calls this protecting "industrial and technological security." Translate that. If you know something Beijing doesn't want leaving with you, you don't get to leave either.
Chinese citizens have technically had more travel freedom than during the Cold War for decades. This is Beijing quietly building the legal machinery to take that back, one engineer at a time, dressed up as an export control update.
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Nutella is 13% hazelnuts. The first two ingredients are sugar and palm oil and together they're more than half the jar. Ferrero doesn't hide it, the percentage is printed on the label in Europe.
Ferrero buys around a quarter of the world's hazelnut crop every year, mostly from Turkey, which grows about 70% of the supply. In 2014 they bought Turkey's biggest hazelnut company so nobody could get ahead of them.
In 2017 they changed the recipe to more sugar and more milk powder without announcing it, and a German consumer group noticed the cocoa went down too because the color got lighter.
25 YEARS AGO:
Michael Jackson overslept on the morning of September 11, 2001, because he stayed up late talking with his mother, which made him miss a scheduled meeting at the World Trade Center.
Michael was scheduled to attend an appointment at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11.
He stayed up late talking with his mother, Katherine, until around 3:00 AM or 4:00 AM.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.