Rahul Matthan

@matthan

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@matthan writes about the challenges surrounding the potential sale of genetic data, highlighting 23andMe specifically — a company struggling financially and exploring options to sell its assets, including DNA data from millions of users. "The company’s entire board has resigned over a disagreement with its founder-CEO Anne Wojcicki, who said that she is open to selling the company—along with its massive stockpile of DNA data—to the highest bidder." https://paragraph.xyz/@exmachina/acquiring-genetic-data

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I used my weekly column to do a mini-review of @cdixon.eth's new book. And pass on some words of advice to the Indian government. https://paragraph.xyz/@exmachina/casino-or-computer

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Hey @colin. Is there some way for me to embed audio into the newsletter. I have trained Eleven Labs on my voice and I have an MP3 file with the AI reading out the newsletter.

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Does the State still have a monopoly over violence? Or has it diluted some of that power in favour of private companies? My latest Ex Machina article - now available to read inline. https://paragraph.xyz/@exmachina/monopoly-over-dematerialised-violence

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Outstanding book.

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Steadily climbing up the charts …

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And a Wagyu burger

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Scallops done right

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Clearly will not work for a book. But my newsletters are 8-10 paragraphs long so I guess it could work. But subscribe is clearly the killer feature. I've quite a few new subs in the few hours since I posted.

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Now that @paragraph has frames you can read my latest Ex Machina newsletter inline. Most of my regular readers are on X - and they have no clue what they are all missing out on. https://paragraph.xyz/@exmachina/liars-dividend

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This is exceptional science fiction. The entire series.

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My first @paragraph newsletter just got collected. This is super cool. @colin

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NYT sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that AI models are memorizing copyrighted content. @matthan's in-depth perspective suggests these claims misunderstand how AI works and underestimates transformative tech. Full piece: pgrph.xyz/@exmachina/nyt-v-the-llms on Paragraph.

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Everyone's doing book lists. Here is mine: https://matthan.notion.site/matthan/A-Year-in-Books-2023-294d88edb3fd4c81beded1475389620d

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Things are about to get really interesting. The NY Times just called for the destruction of ChatGPT and all LLMs that have used their content 🫢 https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221821750/new-york-times-sues-chatgpt-openai-microsoft-for-copyright-infringement

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Knowledge is a burden but it’s lighter than regret

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Yep. Now at 55%.

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In case anyone is looking for a year end book may I suggest this one. It’s about India’s digital public infrastructure and data governance. And I wrote it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199363932-the-third-way?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=HVN78ejlEB&rank=1

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25% through it on the Kindle...

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This was my book of the year.

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