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: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

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