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: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

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Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:DEA ruins telemedicineTrump is already selling mug shotsThe liberals won the Wisconsin Supreme Court seatSenate voted to repeal 2002 AUMFMcCarthy says House will probably pass it, but it has to go through committeeNationwide injunction on abortion pills, but also the opposite of thatBiggest intelligence leak since SnowdenFirst appeared on a tiny meme-Discord 5 weeks agoReboot/NoFap appears to make followers *worse*Doocy asks about AI Doom at White House press briefingLLMs can greatly compress prompts for future self-decoding (but lossy)Chatbot convinces Belgian to commit suicideAI village of 25 NPCs created. Amazing resultsHappy News!New Nuclear plant plugged into the gridDrs Feng Zhang and Joe Kreitz created a molecular delivery system that can deliver proteins only to specific types of cellsProfessor Gilad Yossifon created microrobots that can navigate between cells, and identify and capture individual cellsNow CRISPR RNA is delivered to the mouse lung by inhalation using improved lipid nanoparticlesPaves the way for therapeutic CRISPR applications in the lung, including possibly cystic fibrosis!Some Coastal Salt Marshes Are Keeping Up With Sea Level RiseFDA stops preventing people from buying a life-saving drug!Blast your heart with your own stem cells to reduce inflammation, risk of heart attack and stroke!Utah and California Snowpacks Break All Previous Record. “cautiously optimistic” “Drought is expected to improve further or go away completely across much of California.”.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!News discussed:Credit Suisse collapsed and bought by UBSRESTRICT Act seems like a big Executive power grabUtah is building a registry of all residents that use social media. RIP DavidAlso requires parental consent for anyone under 18 to be on, and gives parents full access to children’s accounts Biden vetoed anti woke capital resolutionNew executive order on gunsNRA says it’s announcing “a general principle that federal agencies should use whatever authorities they have to make life more difficult for gun owners or the businesses that serve them”Trump threatened “potential death and destruction” if he’s criminally chargedARC tested GPT4 capabilities, including prompting it to try to break out and replicate.ChatGPT Plugins let it browse the web, do stuff for youText-only GPT-4 learned what things look like and can draw them Meta made a model 95% as good as ChatGPT, that is small enough to run on your phoneEternal ChildrenLlamas with Hats!Happy News!GPT4 saved a dog’s life by accurately diagnosing it after being given symptomsFTC voted 3-1 to introduce "click to cancel," to easy subscription cancellations.stretchable bandage that accelerates healing by delivering electrotherapy directly to the wound speeds healing by 30%. the components that interface with the wound are entirely resorbableLies about Chris Avelone dismissed with prejudice in libel suit, awarded over $1M, and the perps have made public renunciations of their lies.retinitis pigmentosa affects 1 in 4000, causes blindness, cured by CRISPRGot 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!News discussed:S**t is going down in IsraelBig protests over Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reformsNew proposals would give political appointees a majorityElite fighter squadron is boycotting trainingSilicon Valley Bank is insolventJacob Falkovich blames the governmentBank run stopped by new Fed policy the Bank Term Funding ProgramAnthropic Shadow? “this is what it would look like if you wanted to stifle innovative sectors”In Nebraska a mom & daughter will stand trial for abortionThe American Association of Pediatric released new guidelines for childhood obesityEating disorder experts are not happyFTC is going after MuskFTC is unhappy about “twitter files” exposing this, demands list of journalists from twitter, issues finesFTC commissioner resigns, cites FTC Chairman’s “disregard for the rule of law and due process,” and “abuses of government power,” Partisan rift forming around FTC? Republicans investigating the investigation!AlphaFold2 continues to do lots of stuffGPT-4 coming in the next week or soYou can’t stop AI progressHappy News!Toddler vaccinations are up!The asteroid diversion was a success!Growing Nuclear Acceptance! Start-up Sakuu uses 3D printers to print solid-state batteriesGot 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!News discussed:A pretty good open-source LLM with a webapp interface has been releasedIran Followup - young couple give (combined) 10year jail sentence for dancing in public (and filming it)Iran’s Revolutionary Guard increasingly deployed in protest crack-downs.East Palestine, Ohio local police department declares unrestricted chemical warfare on OhioSummaryOn-the-ground footageMoreReporters trying to find out what the heck happened getting arrestedTurkey hit with 7.8 & 7.5 mag earthquakes. 35K dead. Reports that building codes were waived for years partly responsible. Jobs for everyone!H5N1 can/has spread to mammalsOpenAI released an AI safety policy proposal. It sucks unbelievable quantities of ass.Getty Images suing Stable Diffusing for 1.8 TrillionThe eighth seal of the apocalypse has broken, and the deepfake boner pill scams have poured forth to cover the EarthA judge in Colombia used ChatGPT to make a court rulingDemocrats made South Carolina the first primary instead of IowaNew Hampshire is not playing ballCovid is over… on May 11thHappy News!California nuked its zoning codeDevelopers are sharing creative ideasIndia discovers 5.9m tonnes of Lithium!Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease in 2022SpaceX successfully static-fire tests StarshipA new way to significantly increase the potency of almost any vaccine has been developed by International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) at Northwestern University. The paper is here.Brain Cancer Vaccine being developedGot 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 things going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Bounded distrustThe SCOTUS leak investigation fizzled outClassified documents also found at Mike Pence’s house!Eight in 10 people in China caught Covid since early December, say officialsIsrael strikes Iranian drone plant with their own drone strikeNATO countries sending Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, US sending Abrams 1 Russia pushing into Donetsk, striking before tanks arriveHuge increase in homicides is persistingTyr Nicoles beat to death by police earlier this monthGas stoves became the main character of the internet for some reasonF**k that noise (Zvi)Trump indictment decisions are “imminent” in Georgia election interference caseConversely, New York chickenshit prosecutors failed to charge in Stormy Daniels case“class action” copyright lawsuit filed against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney related to Stable Diffusion.Apparently it’s b******tReal estate agents using ChatGPT commerciallyAfter CA votes to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in operation, NRC says “nah”Some auto insurers are refusing to cover certain Hyundai and Kia modelsHappy News!(fake happy news) China considers banning export of solar panel componentsClimeworks pulled CO2 from the air stored it undergroundResearch on pain-insensitivity gene continues.Endangered Species Act has saved hundreds from extinctionArtificial Pancreas looks to be twice as good as normal insulin injectionTroop Deployment LinksJon Stokes’ and Construction Physics substacks are quite good. David recommends this piece on the Stability lawsuit And this piece on why automatic bricklayers don’t exist.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 perspective, with special guests appearances by Charlie and Gray!Support us on Substack!News discussed:The Electoral Count Reform Act was passedFinally got enough on the 15th ballotMexico captures El Chapo’s son (again) and has a literal military battle with cartels. Brazil’s Jan 6th happened on Jan 8th.By one estimate, the US has sent close to 1/5th of our artillery shell stockpile to Ukraine, which will take 2yrs to replenish at current ratesLanguage Models can make completely de novo proteins that are viable in the wetlab. William Eden has the best take.LLMs can discern cause & effectWhen Google tuned a AI chatbot to answer common medical questions, doctors judged 92.6% of its answers rightIt also passed the Official medical examBraced pistols now regulated under same rules as SBRsSexy News Update - more than 75% of casual sex isn’t ONS, it’s an extended sexual relationship with a friend/acquaintance. Ecuadorian man changes gender to route around sexist lawsHappy News!South Carolina court found right to abortion in Constitution up to 20 weeksFDA lifted rule banning mifepristone (abortion pill) from being sold in pharmaciesTom Lehrer put all of his music in the public domainThe End Poem of Minecraft is too!FTC is (probably) banning non-compete clauses!!Counterpoint from Tyler CowenJapan is NukeMaxxing!DUKE NUCLEAR!In big New Atheist win, Congressman Was Sworn Into Office With Rare Superman ComicEneasz crossed a bridgeGot 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