The Mind Killer

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

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Perun (sp?) videoWeird aborted coup in RussiaIf a cop has a gun in your face and you try to escape anyway, presumably what the cop would find is worse for you than taking a bulletFrance Riots:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/02/france-protests-nahel-m-shooting/https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/france-violence-rioters-burn-down-largest-public-library-in-marseille-visuals-surfacehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/france-riots-more-than-400-arrested-as-police-officer-accused-of-shooting-teen-apologiseshttps://twitter.com/NowVideoNetwork/status/1675605783365443585https://twitter.com/NowVideoNetwork/status/1675570451324493824https://twitter.com/NowVideoNetwork/status/1675611514231767042Doom scrolling (Twitter) capVietnam has banned 'Barbie' film Here’s the map in the scene (probably? Seen at 1:01 in this trailer) Here’s the Nine-Dash-Line that they’re talking aboutTake our non-biased scientific poll!Supreme Court NewsTurns out Alito is corrupt too. Nobody could have predicted!Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard - Affirmative action is toastBiden v. Nebraska - no student loan cancellation :’(Moore v. Harper - rejected independent legislature theoryUS v Texas - states lack standing to challenge immigration priorities of DHS303 Creative v. Elenis - web designer doesn’t have to make gay wedding websiteThe decision was limited because much of what might have been contested about the facts of the case was stipulatedHappy News!Type 1 Diabetes is caused by the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas not producing insulin at all. Now old bad beta cells can be cleared out with a repurposed cancer drug, and functioning beta cells produced from stem cells can replace these.Now tests are proceeding to encase these beta cells in a “ channel array device” that allows them to get nutrients and function while keeping the immune cells away!I-95 reopened after 12 daysA houseboat in Florida capsized during a big storm, with two women trapped inside. A passing Florida man, Jordan Boyd, jumped into the water from his boat without even a lifejacket on (he really shoulda taken a few seconds tho, for real), grabbed a 2x4, and smashed the glass door of the house boat openGot 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:Trump indicted againStatement on AI risksThe draft of the AI Bill of Rights is currently garbage Google’s DeepMind: AlphaDev uncovered new and improved sorting algorithmsLanguage Models Don't Always Say What They ThinkSCOTUS: Alabama redistricting was unconstitutionalSupreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of a woman after her county kept the entire $40,000 when it sold her condominium over a $15k unpaid tax bill Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel's in trademark dispute with dog toy maker Supreme Court has ruled against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete John Stokes on AI SafetyHappy News!Fed judge says border agents can't force you to turn over a full copy of your entire phone Brain-Spine Interface Allows Paralyzed Man to Walk Using His Thoughts there's not a huge nationwide campaign to ban books from school libraries. There are literally eleven people in the whole country responsible for most challenges Driverless taxies in several cities are doing fineFour Colombian Children Found Alive in Jungle Five Weeks After Plane Crash 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindkiller.substack.comWes and Eneasz report live from Vibecamp!Featuring Twitter personalities @vraiqx, @catascopic, @embryosophy, @AgotaDubi, and @LexerLux

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community. Support us on Substack!News discussed:Oathkeeper leader Stewart Rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy“He was the one giving the orders,” Judge Mehta saidMajor loss of access to transgender healthcare in FloridaAlso, Oklahoma passed a super anti-trans bill in FebruaryElon comes out as pro-criminalization of sex changes for minors :( Meta says it’ll stop linking news sites in CA if Link Tax passesThey’re testing on Canadians Facebook refusing to pay off a couple of Australian news orgsHappy News!Afghan War ended with 0 US MIAsOpenAI working on “Processes Supervision”NewLimit raises $40M to extend life Pairwise used CRISPR to make raw mustard greens not taste badUsing artificial intelligence researchers found a new type of antibioticFirst Einstein Shape discovered by David SmithAnother one! Based on Hat, meet Spectre, which does it without reflected tilesNeuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implantsIn just a few months, the U.S. received more than 1.5 million requests from individuals hoping to sponsor the entry of migrants! TN anti-drag law is unconstitutional on multiple grounds First Recorded Stand-Up Comedy SketchFirst-Ever X-Ray of a Single Atom CapturedAndrew Carr 32-year-old owner of ABC Cleaning Services, says he was fed up with the paths and cobbles in Alnwick, Northumberland, being covered in chewing gum and dog poo. Turned his powerful pressure washer on the walkways nearby after a job. Everyone loves him. Now he does it every Sunday morning.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:California, Arizona and Nevada agrees to cut at least 3 million acre-feet of waterChina has banned US chip maker Micron from selling to Chinese companies working on key infrastructure projectsTrump found liable for sexual assaultFeds approved Manhattan congestion pricing planWas Qualified Immunity snuck in by an a*****e?Meta has been fined a record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European Union regulators for violating EU privacy laws by transferring the personal data of Facebook users to servers in the United StatesSupreme Court upholds California ban on 'unethical' pork, Proposition 12Gorsuch opinion!Rules against plaintiffs attempting to hold Google + Twitter financially liable for terroristsAndy Warhol estate infringed a photographers copyright in a photograph of the musician Prince when it licensed an image Warhol derived from that photograph to serve as a magazine coverExtreme dissent by KaganRebuttal to dissent from Sotomayor The rich and fabulous will still be able to get licenses when they need them, but the poor and obscure won’t, White House AI meeting - Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, + Kamala HarrisAltman testifies before Congress, recommends regulationSenator Blumenthal (D-CT): "I think you have said, in fact, and I'm gonna quote, 'Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.' You may have had in mind the effect on jobs”Sam Altman has privately suggested OpenAI may try to raise as much as $100 billion in the coming years to achieve its aim of developing artificial general intelligence that is advanced enough to improve its own capabilitiesOpenAI published an official public statement on regulation.Anthropic's chat context window expanded to 100k tokensWho pissed off the Orcas? Happy News!Semaglutide ends addictive behavior for some users? People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail bitingPill form passed phase 3 trialGot 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!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 galaxyDavid was right: New York banned gas stoves in new constructionWes and David were wrong: Alec Baldwin charges dropped because gun could have fired without trigger pull Disney finally sued DeSantisDrone “attacks” the KremlinMuch-hyped Russian hypersonic missile was successfully intercepted by a PatriotHollywood writers are striking againMedian writer pay has decreased by 23% in the past 5 years (inflation adjusted)No more PornHub in UtahFree Speech Coalition filed lawsuit to challenge the law.New housing policy has people with good credit subsidize people with bad creditChina sanctions Lockheed, RaytheonAlso raiding, arresting, or investigating many large foreign companiesChinese Police Station shut down in NYC’s ChinatownAI News:MIT researchers use AI to design novel proteins with specific structural featuresGPT-4 as data scientist. With Code Interpreter model, just upload the data and provide instructions in simple englishGeoffrey Hinton (AI pioneer/”godfather”) quit Google to doom-sayMSM 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, obviouslyEurope 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?AI Tutorials 1 2Happy News!Washington State is going full YIMBYNew shape-shifting antibiotics fight medically-resistant bacterial infectionsCars are getting back physical buttonsHero kid grabs wheel of school bus and applies brakes after driver passes out.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 discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspectiveSupport us on Substack!We had a number of digressions this week that were edited out. Become an MK Ultra to get access to over 4 minutes of additional content!News discussed:Hypnosis, LSD, and the UnabomberHarvard and the Making of the UnabomberSCOTUS granted stay in mifepristone caseAlito and Thomas dissentedClarence Thomas’s billionaire friend also bought his property at an above-market price and let Thomas’ mother live there for freeFox settled the Dominion lawsuit for $787 millionAnd Tucker Carlson is out!Florida enacts six-week abortion banFlorida allows death penalty by 8-4 jury voteGerman Green party decides that giving the lignite coal industry a massive boost by shutting down their nuclear power plantsCongress failed to extend a key tax provision last year allowing companies to fully expense research & development costs in the year incurred. See SSBalliance.orgNorth Dakota banned approval votingUpdate: veto override failed!!Russia widely published intentions to move nukes to Belarus, but doesn’t seem to have actually done it. Lot of discussion of Mackaroon being soft on China, but Tyler Cowen-endorsed Twitter thread says this is a misinterpretation.CounterpointSome protests in Sundan turned violent. President Bashir declared state of emergency in Feb 2019, dissolved the govtThey did not hand over power. “lil mohammad” HemedtiBuhan and Hemedit both think the old govt sucks, they should rule the new govt, and they’re gonna fight about itCountries are pulling out all their diplomats/peepsNIH blows $1B trying to make Long COVID a thingHappy News!Ghana has approved a malaria vaccine for deploymentReforms signed three years ago in Michigan took effect last week, with nearly 850,000 residents seeing at least one conviction automatically set asideScientists have discovered that intersecting gravity waves shortly after the big bang generated the universe’s first photonsHubble saw a supermassive black hole three times the diameter of our whole galaxy, speeding through the universe. 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