The Mind Killer Episode 82 - Everyone Was Wrong!
Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
Extra stuff for subscribers this episode:
* Is Disney actually popular?
* What is the Kremlin?
* Tradwife feminism
* Roxie wants to be a cowboy!
News discussed:
Eneasz was wrong: Supermassive black hole was not 3x the size of our galaxy
David was right: New York banned gas stoves in new construction
Wes and David were wrong: Alec Baldwin charges dropped because gun could have fired without trigger pull
Much-hyped Russian hypersonic missile was successfully intercepted by a Patriot
Hollywood writers are striking again
Median writer pay has decreased by 23% in the past 5 years (inflation adjusted)
Free Speech Coalition filed lawsuit to challenge the law.
New housing policy has people with good credit subsidize people with bad credit
China sanctions Lockheed, Raytheon
Also raiding, arresting, or investigating many large foreign companies
Chinese Police Station shut down in NYC’s Chinatown
AI News:
MIT researchers use AI to design novel proteins with specific structural features
GPT-4 as data scientist. With Code Interpreter model, just upload the data and provide instructions in simple english
Geoffrey Hinton (AI pioneer/”godfather”) quit Google to doom-say
MSM is actually taking this stuff seriously now. Massive change from even a couple months ago.
Yann LeCun, head of Meta’s AI division, says we’ll just program the AI to not kill us, obviously
Europe and China and USA on AI regulation. Not Like This vibes, but if it slows things down… maybe?
Closed LLMs (Google, OpenAI) “Cannot Compete Against Open Source”
Can you convince YudBot to sell you a GPU cluster?
Happy News!
Washington State is going full YIMBY
New shape-shifting antibiotics fight medically-resistant bacterial infections
Cars are getting back physical buttons
Hero kid grabs wheel of school bus and applies brakes after driver passes out.
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