The Mind Killer Episode 54 - The One Without David
Wes and Eneasz discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective. David overslept, so it’s just the two of us this week!
News discussed:
Farmers planted extra wheat last fall due to expectation of conflict
Michigan Governor Kidnap Plot - 2 not guilty, 2 mistrial, due to FBI entrapment
Europe not paying for gas in rubles
Russia has withdrawn from Kyiv, focusing on Eastern Ukraine
Mass murder of civilians in Bucha and several other cities
Biden called Putin a war criminal
EU banning all bank transactions and coal imports
Russian state media is calling for full genocide
Poland is going full gigachad and has accepted 2.3 million refugees
Russian parliament introduced bill declaring any Russian speaker a citizen
Trump still asking Putin for dirt on Biden
7 hours of Trump’s call logs missing on 1/6.
Unrest is beginning in China, possible riots?
Pets of COVID-positive citizens are killed
Far-Right French President Candidate has a good shot at winning
Ginni Thomas is a crazy conspiracy theorist
Amazon challenging union vote due to organizers handing out weed
DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand
Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals
AlphaCode can solve natural-language coding problems at the level of a new programmer.
Musk not joining the Twitter board
State Court Finds California’s Diversity Mandate for Corporate Boards Is Unconstitutional
US passports now include Gender X
Happy News!
Old skins cells reprogrammed to be young again!
“The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy estimates it would cost just over $24 billion to have prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease.”
SCOTUS held that you can sue for malicious prosecution if your criminal charges are dropped
The Bayesian Conspiracy on whether you should punch Nazis
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