Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News discussed:
Ilya Sutskever has started his own AI company
Alec Baldwin case dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct
Trump shooting
Trump says his convention speech will be focused on “unity”
Biden gave RFK Jr. secret service protection
Joe holds a 1 hour news conference
Biden opponents “standing down” because of “fragile political moment”
Republicans released a platform
Judge Cannon dismissed classified documents case
Center and Left coordinated to beat far-right in France
if Macron had given them time to squabble they probably would have fallen apart
They got 37% of the vote but 25% of parliament
Got 10% more votes than NFP (far left) but 20% less seats
15% more votes than Macron’s centrist, but slightly less seats.
They seem to be having trouble picking a PM
Astronauts that were supposed to be on ISS for a week are stuck there until August (Feb??)
because Boeing can’t make things that work anymore.
Russia and N Korea ally against “aggression”
Ukraine war pushing the frontier of autonomous military weapons
Happy News!
US will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA vaccine for bird flu
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - The shot of a lifetime takes a lifetime
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