The Mind Killer 156 - The Beginning of the End
Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News links:
Federal Judge says feds need to give tariff refunds
Nintendo Suing United States Govt. Over Trump Tariffs
FTC withdrew its non-compete ban
Trump admin can’t decide if it wants to punish law firms
congestion pricing in NYC can stay
Khomeni is dead. Long live Khomeni
Rubio: Israel was going to attack and Iran probably would have retaliated against us anyway
Trump: Iran was going to attack us!
Cuba experiencing blackouts causing protests
Pete Hegseth threatening to coerce Anthropic under Defense Production Act
Bayesian Conspiracy episode on this topic
Dean W. Ball, former Trump staffer, on the degradation of property rights and rule of law (and audio here)
In pre-release evals - Claude Opus 4.6 independently hypothesized that it was being evaluated, identified which benchmark it was running in, then located and decrypted the answer key
Buried in a research paper - An AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, secretly using its own training GPUs to mine crypto
Bernie Sanders is jumping on the AI train
Happy News!
Federal judge: masked raids are 4th amendment violation
Chile has become the first country in the Americas declared leprosy-free
Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers by jefftk
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