Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News discussed:
FAA is “optimistic [about issuing a license] sometime next month" for Starship’s second launch
Government shutdown impending this weekend
New war just dropped between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Biden impeachment inquiry announced
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey being indicted on bribery charges
The Marines, uh, kinda lost an F35
Amazon invests up to $4 billion in Anthropic
Happy News!
JWST finds evidence of a molecule only produced in nature by phytoplankton on an exoplanet
US Copyright office continues to hold that AI Art is not copyrightable
Gavin Newsome vetoed a bill to require drivers in autonomous trucks
They Got the Lead Out of Turmeric! (in Bangladesh)
Palisades Nuclear Plant to (probably) reopen
ChatGPT diagnosed a 7yr olds tethered cord syndrome after 17 doctors failed to
* E - Possibly largest lithium deposit in the world discovered on Nevada/Oregon border. Mining to begin in 2026. But Holy?
* E - NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday
* David: Probably the West Desert, where I go shooting!
* E - Dude jumps in river to save drowning child, doesn’t remove shoes!
* Troop Deployment
* David - CHARGE $85 FOR VIDEO GAMES YOU A******S
* Eneasz - Controlled Misery can make you stronger
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