The Mind Killer

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindkiller.substack.comWes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:George Santos wasn’t actually expelled, they just triedAnd they’re trying againSpaceX gets FAA approval for second Starship test launchSAG Strike is over! The AI provisions of the dealSama kicked …

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News Links:SBF guilty on all chargesWe have a speaker of the house!He doesn’t have a bank account?!?First bill passed: $14 billion in aid for Israel plus $14 billion in cuts for IRSBiden Executive Order on AIZvi agrees that it is mostly a prelude to actions to be taken in a few yearsProminent AI Scientists from China and the West Propose Joint Strategy to Mitigate Risks from AI Israel NewsHouthi Rebels in Yemen are launching missiles at IsraelHezbollah and Israel firing rockets at each other in LebanonChinese companies removed Israel from their mapsHalf of The Kids Today think Hamas was justifiedOne of the founders of the Democratic Socialists of America resigned over the Hamas supportcommies supporting a final solutionanti lgbt, black Hebrews, shocked pikachuFearless Fund sued by same group that got rid of formal discrimination in university admissionsEVs are getting harder to sellHappy News!AI reads words on Pompeii scroll, makes John Lennon sound good, gets people jobsAlmost 900 school districts are giving kids 3-day weekends!Missouri poll found 69% of parents approved, but (naturally) press coverage has been uniformly negativeU.S. economy grew almost 5% in the third quarterNew fish just droppedNew Silkworm just dropped - Adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than KevlarTeenagers who came across an empty candy bucket refilled it with their own candyEneasz -  Don’t Trans Me BroGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying $1.1BCaroline Ellison of FTX admits on the stand that Sam bribed Chinese officials with $100M to unfreeze their assets, purposely tried to scam Saudi investors in the final days of FTX, & intentionally tried to sic regulators on Binance to destroy his competition.The NYT issued a mea culpa for its coverage of the destroyed hospitalA US Navy warship shot down several cruise missiles and drones launched from Yemenmia khalifa plus many others cancelledan intrepid 25-year-old Israeli woman saved an entire kibbutz from harm by leading a group of residents to kill more than two dozen advancing terroristsTexas fortifies border with New Mexico with concertina wireGag issue ordered for TrumpA group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology's E-MeterHappy News!over the past two decades increased globalization has resulted in higher wages, safer workplaces, and less child labor, and it has happened the fastest in the countries that have opened the most and are most integrated in global supply chainsBay Area high school grad (with  a 3.97 unweighted and 4.42 weighted GPA, scored 1590 out of 1600 on SATs) rejected by 16 colleges - hired by Google! Eleven of the 271 recipients of the Thiel Fellowship have founded unicorns so far!!Troop DeploymentsEneasz -  Gender is personality (or maybe more accurately, personality-tropes)Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Azerbaijan wonThe Free Press says this is Israel’s 9/11They randomly massacred a music festival, taken many hostages“Declare a humanitarian interest in liberating Gaza from Hamas' theocratic military dictatorship”Madmen march in support of murder-rapeUS shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters of troops Turkey has been striking Kurdish separatistsNew Tinder $500-a-month plan Trump org found guilty of fraud, lost its business licenseCowards refuse to recognize artAlabama has a new voting mapAnthropic - patterns of neuron activations map to “Features” which separately represent thingsAnthropic CEO and Co-Founder says there’s a 75-90% chance that humanity won’t be wiped out by AIs!Walmart says users of weight loss drugs are buying less foodWood structure aged 476,000 yrs old foundFDA Delenda Est!! Why won’t you let old people be happy??Happy News!Air taxis in 2025?!?Nobel Prizes awarded last weekGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:FAA is “optimistic [about issuing a license] sometime next month" for Starship’s second launchGovernment shutdown impending this weekendNew war just dropped between Armenia and AzerbaijanBiden impeachment inquiry announcedDemocratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey being indicted on bribery chargesKen Paxton acquitted Writers strike is over!Various old people who don’t know how AI works are suing OpenAI for writing fanfic when prompted to write fanficThe Marines, uh, kinda lost an F35Amazon invests up to $4 billion in AnthropicHappy News!JWST finds evidence of a molecule only produced in nature by phytoplankton on an exoplanetUS Copyright office continues to hold that AI Art is not copyrightableGavin Newsome vetoed a bill to require drivers in autonomous trucksCavities have been cured!!!They Got the Lead Out of Turmeric! (in Bangladesh)Palisades Nuclear Plant to (probably) reopenChatGPT diagnosed a 7yr olds tethered cord syndrome after 17 doctors failed toTurns out there’s an assload of lithium in Nevada, which is a good step 1 to getting Chinese slave labor out of the green tech market* 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 strongerGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Intuitive Machines, the company behind the private moon lander, released a video of a test-fire of its landing enginesFifth Circuit injunction preventing government from censoring social mediaFifth Circuit also reversed lower court and upheld Texas law forbidding viewpoint discrimination by social media companiesSpaceX is ready for another test launch of Starship, but the FAA is dragging their feet on approval.Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years in prisonPutin and Erdogan met to try to revive grain dealBritish company FruitCast uses AI to count, weigh, and evaluate ripeness of millions of berries per dayFlorida State University professor Eric Stewart, a celebrated criminologist, is kicked out of FSU under allegations of fraud. Six major studies often cited as proof of systemic racism have been retracted. A collaborator blew a whistle a few years ago when a study with 500 participants was published as having over 1100 participantsHappy News!NY and LA school districts considering teaching kids to use ChatGPT to enhance learning rather than banning itUniversity of Tokyo researching a muon-based GPS replacement, which would work deep underground and underwater.Chinese air pollution down over 40% in a decade, life expectancy is up 2-6 years in cities.Ozempic can maybe completely remove the need for insulin in type 1 diabetics!? Research ongoingHuman-sized Legos make real buildings!!! German company Polaris has successfully test flown a scaled-down unmanned model of Aurora, a hypersonic/suborbital jet capable of delivering payloads to orbitThe Mars Society announced the creation of the Mars Technology Institute, whose purpose is to develop the technologies required to settle MarsA proof-of-concept device on Perseverance has generated enough oxygen to keep a small dog alive for 10 hoursUN Diplomat crowd-funds $144M to drain an abandoned oil tanker of over 1M barrels of crude and scupper the ship (Yemen couldn’t do it cuz they’re doing a civil war), prevented an eventual massive catastropheTroop DeploymentsScott Alexander 4 prezRIP Van Aaron HughesFootball now with AI-powered commentaryGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Wes and David are joined by Jamiel to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Prighozin, Utkin, and more or less all Wagner head honchos dead after a Wagner-owned private plane was shot downChinese real-estate company Evergrande files for bankruptcy… in US court.Fourth (and final?) Trump indictment!Abortion is illegal in South Carolina againDoJ files charges against Elon Musk for illegal discrimination against refugees, despite this making no senseFifth Circuit upheld Mifepriston ban, but stayed order pending SCOTUS reviewHappy News!Meta has developed an open source GitHub Copilot competitorNew startup Rainmaker wants to make it rainIntuitive Machines’ lunar lander slated to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on 15 November.Quantum superchemistry. What is it? Why is it cool? Idk, but sounds super cool!AI (the kind Eneasz wants to stop) used to allow ALS patients to communicate at 80 WPM using brain interfaceTech investors are trying to make a new city in an otherwise-empty part of SFBAGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Coroner’s report (Cu2S (known impurity in LK-99) has a first-order phase transition around 378 K accompanied by a large resistivity drop)Index of replication attemptsIsraeli Knesset banned “reasonableness” standard, but nothing further yetClarence Thomas is even more corruptReason on common misconceptions about Trump indictmentJack Smith has Trump’s Twitter DMsOhio rejected Republican attempt to rig referendumsEcuadorian presidential candidate running on anti-organized crime & corruption assassinated at rally. Gunman dead.DeSantis proposes making student loan debt dischargable via bankruptcyOpenAI and many others are bottlenecked by lack of GPUs right nowRichard Hahahania not canceled by HuffPoEneasz - Anti-tech is necessarily pro-slaveryHappy News!Cure for cancer???Cultured Meat approved for sale in US US suicide rate down to 1960’s levelsNet result cutting 35% of the climate impact of commercial flights if implemented!US carbon-per-capita down to WW1 levelsRobotor, the automated chisel. Users feed data, it makes detailed marble and stone sculptures. CA approves robot taxi (of the four accidents reported, all of them are fake news)Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Ukraine Update: Kerch Strait Bridge 2: Electric Boogaloo Fed still raising interest rates despite inflation being overMonthly PCE inflation is at 2%Even the Fed’s janky numbers have inflation at 3%Judge killed Biden asylum rulesBiden tries student debt forgiveness againwtf China. Secret chinese biolab in CA, similar to the secret chinese police station.Niger presidential guard overthrow president and install a military junta. Fake News!Room-temp superconductors??Polymarket says 26%Aliens!AI STUFFThe White House secured a voluntary agreement with seven leading AI companiesMeta releases LLAMA-2Musk starts x.AI the dumbest alignment plan ever.Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are launching the Frontier Model ForumAnother Senate hearing on AIRobot servers at restaurantHappy NewsAI takes a prompt (“I want to hold a cup 🍵) and converts it into a 3d printable prostheticNASA and DARPA are working on a nuclear cislunar rocketBlue Origin was able to refine polysilicates from simulated regalith18 million doses of first-ever malaria vaccine allocated to 12 African countriesIndians mostly stopped shitting in the streetsTake the Poo to the Loo is great success!Toyota claims a solid-state battery breakthrough for EVsSulfur Selenium Solid-State Battery From NASA Breaks Energy Storage Boundariesenthusiastic Swifties cause seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake in SeattleTroop DeploymentsWes - chart listing masculine and feminine traitsEneasz -  The Subversiveness of BarbieGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Inflation is overCrazy Trump judge issued an injunction against government talking to social media companiesONE WEIRD TRICK! - Wisconsin gov used line-item veto to rewrite law to guarantee education funding for 400 years Apparently they do this all the timeUK Online Safety Bill requires backdoor in all encryptionApple, Signal, Wikipedia all likely to pull out of UK if it passesActors’ union (falsely?) claimed that studios proposed to use background characters’ likenesses in perpetuityOpenAI committed 20% of secured compute and a new taskforce to solve alignment in four years. Eliezer speaks to Rep Dan CrenshawRobots at a Geneva AI forum promise they won’t steal jobs or rebel against humans. 1% of the population is responsible for almost 2/3rds of all violent crimeHappy News!Super white paint on 2% of Earth could stop climate changeChina has automated trucking - 40M km over 2 years, no accidents, used by Budweiser, NestléCanada vastly expanded its immigration systemA flying car prototype just got an airworthiness certificate from the FAAVideo on site not of the Model A! Here’s what it actually looks like.Largest ever fusion rocket engine is now being built in the UKPacific Northwest National Laboratory has tested a flow batteryGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe