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  1. 156 - The Beginning of the End

    4 DAGE SIDEN

    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 Support us on Substack! 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! Oil prices “going vertical” 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 We have uploaded a fly 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 Kristi Noem fired 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 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! Feedburner RSS Pocket Casts Apple Podcasts 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

    1 t. 34 min.
  2. 155 - Liberation Day is Canceled

    25. FEB.

    155 - Liberation Day is Canceled

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: Grand jury rejected charges against Congresspeople who made the “you can disobey unlawful orders” video Jim O’Neill fired from HHS But he’s going to lead the National Science Foundation? feds leaving Minnesota for real Former SK President sentenced to life in prison News Liberation Day is canceled! Trump is definitely going to reinstate the tariffs claiming fake authority under some other statute Originally IEEPA had a legislative veto, but SCOTUS killed it in the 80’s No Republican Senate candidate in NM The FDA is ruining biotech Update: Trump intervened and now the review is back on! EPA overturned finding allowing them to regulate greenhouse emissions Trump is trying to cancel bridge project between US & Canada The Snow Mexicans double-touched the stone! They also lost to the US in the closest thing they have to a source of national pride Also, the Poutine Beaners announced a plan to reach 2% of their GDP being spent on defense, but only buying exclusively from Canadian defense companies. The problem is that Canada doesn’t have any of those. Your AI is not a lawyer SeeDance is making full-ass multi-minute films. Anthropic says they’ll pay for 100% of the grid upgrades needed to interconnect our data centers CENTCOM continues to collect American military hardware like its pokemon Trump announced a 10-day deadline for Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or “bad things happen” Big military buildup near Iran In retaliation for a Mexican operation that killed the leader of the CJNG leader “El Mencho”, the cartel erected roadblocks of burning cars, engaged in street violence, and issued threats against American tourists. Netherlands taxing unrealized capital gains They’ve actually been doing this for almost a decade, in an even stupider way Happy News! FDA Commissioner: “everything should be over the counter” unless a drug is unsafe, addictive or requires monitoring Singapore is successfully eliminating mosquitos San Francisco is working on eliminating zombies! Chinese researchers have created injectable “bone glue” In ten years, Israel almost got rid of cystic fibrosis among newborns Aella has released her Bink Kink Dataset and a tool to play with it! Tesla FSD has saved many lives. Here’s another one. Insurance exists that will give you 50% off your premium when you drive with Self-Driving mode on Troop Deployment David - The Mind Killer Podcast’s long overdue Land Acknowledgement Eneasz - Is your life better or worse due to your use of social media? 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! Feedburner RSS Pocket Casts Apple Podcasts 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

    1 t. 19 min.
  3. 154 - Hooray for Markets!

    11. FEB.

    154 - Hooray for Markets!

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: Homan removing 700 officers (2,000 still left) All DHS officers are getting body cameras Trump: we’ll use a “softer touch” US attorneys still not happy DOJ having trouble hiring new ones Congress made a deal to fund most of the government Thom Tillis says he’ll block the nomination unless the Powell investigation is dropped Communists won Portugal’s election right-wing populists won bigly Japan More Epstein files! The FBI seized all the ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia Trump shutting down the Kennedy Center Undersecretary of State accuses China of performing nuclear tests on X. $2 million in damages to detransitioner Fox Varian Blocked and Reported’s coverage (paywalled) Happy News! AI-driven automated trash sorters increased third-quarter profits by 18% due to recycling gains at nation’s largest trash firm. Despite a 5-year drought, Canadian farmers are pulling in record harvests. Up 77% from 30 years ago 13-yr old swims against the current to get back to land and get help. Troop Deployments Eneasz - I went to the pro-billionaire march 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! Feedburner RSS Pocket Casts Apple Podcasts 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

    1 t. 1 min.
  4. 153 - ICE Storm

    28. JAN.

    153 - ICE Storm

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: American Association of Pediatrics made recommendations that kids get 18 vaccinations A second person - Alex Pretti - was shot Video shows that gun was secured before shots fired Trump sent 3,000 feds to Minneapolis Local police chief reports that his non-white off-duty officers keep getting illegally detained Kristi Noem statement on Rene Good shooting Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller statement Minnesota US Attorney resigned in protest because of pressure to investigate Good’s widow Trump threatening to invoke Insurrection Act Internal memo says ICE can enter homes with “administrative warrant” Last year DHS said it’s illegal to record ICE Feds issued subpoenas to governor, two mayors, and two other officials Some changes being made ICE at Winter Olympics Related?: Trump ended temporary protected status for Somalis State Dept. is “pausing” visas from 75 countries Trump threatening tariffs on all Nordic countries, France, Germany, & the UK Wrote an insane letter to the Norwegian prime minster Canada made a major trade deal with China Trump is being super normal about it More pardons for fraud guys! Trump has made at least $1.4 billion since taking office Happy News! Dream communication is happening! TikTok recently showed a privacy-policy pop-up to users in the U.S. as part of a corporate restructuring A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS 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! Feedburner RSS Pocket Casts Apple Podcasts 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

    1 t. 11 min.

  5. 14. JAN.

    152 - Nuts in the Air

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: Tim Walz dropped reelection bid due to welfare fraud scandal Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down After a week-long pursuit we caught and boarded the Bella 1 oil tanker, with no resistance. CIA agents in Venezula since August reporting on movements Bad jobs numbers last year Treasury Department bans international wire transfers for people on public assistance. Lego releases “smart-bricks” The ICE officer had been dragged 300’ by a car last year Victim was a member of an “ICE Watch” group Trump wants to 1.5x military budget In an “AI Manhattan Project” China has completed a prototype lithography machine Anthropic pulls access to Claude Code from xAI’s AI team RFK removed six vaccines from the recommended list for kids Hegseth trying to demote Sen. Mark Kelly over the video about disobeying illegal orders Jerome Powell: Trump is threatening indictments to try to intimidate Fed Trump probably vetoes a bill for funding a water pipeline in Colorado for vindictive reasons Happy News! Small exposure to peanuts works for adults too, to a lesser degree! Trachoma – the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness – has fallen from 1.5 billion in 2002 to 97.1 million today Sanitation, diagnosis, and antibiotics have reduced it by 94% An injection that blocks the activity of a protein involved in aging reverses naturally occurring cartilage loss in the knee joints of old mice Troop Deployment Wes - Listen to Fashionably Late by the Fine Vintages! 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/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket 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

    1 t. 24 min.

  6. 31.12.2025

    151 - B******t Trump News

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: New Epstein files released Over 500 pages fully redacted Asfura declared winner of Honduras election SCOTUS says Trump can’t deploy national guard to Chicago 6-3, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch in minority No deal on ACA subsidies TikTok is finally divesting Trump put up b****y plaques on portraits of former presidents One of the board members is suing 60 Minutes pulled coverage of Salvadoran prison Trump EO: Weed reclassified to Schedule III Trump EO: nukes on the moon! Fentanyl is now a “weapon of mass destruction” (??) We’re blockading oil tankers from Venezuela Bella 1 oil tanker refused to stop for boarding Iran declares total war on US, Europe, and Israel China having its largest ever military exercises in the Taiwan strait right now Japan scrambling fighters Russia and Ukraine having peace talks in Florida, results TBD Trump boats! 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods Rob Reiner and wife stabbed to death by their son Happy News! 2025 had the lowest murder rate ever recorded Overdoses are also falling! India passed the SHANTI act, which allows private companies to create and run nuclear power plants Huge stock of rare earth minerals found in Utah by an existing mining site A non-profit drone search and rescue team exists You Can Just Buy Far-UVC Troop Deployment Eneasz - Lightcone Fundraising! LessWrong Census! 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/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket 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

    1 t. 8 min.

  7. 17.12.2025

    150 - Artisanally Crafted Phonemes

    Wes and Eneasz are joined by Will Eden to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: For on Venezuelan boat, we did a second strike to kill them Also we stole an oil tanker Trump: “Well, we keep it, I guess” Vaccine advisory committee eliminated recommendation that newborns get Hep B vaccine Big measles outbreak in South Carolina Honduras election is in chaos Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández Trump decided N Zvi says this is a terrible idea Trump EO is attempting to preempt state AI laws AI has designed proteins that survive 150 °C and nanonewton forces Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’ We’re bailing out the farmers Huge welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota Matt Van Epps (R) won special election in Tennessee Australia banned social media for children under 16 Gen Z Protests organized through Discord Trump commuted the sentence of a private equity CEO convicted of fraud Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) of federal bribery charges Trump is upset that he’s going to run for reelection as a democrat Oliver Sacks made up many of the details in his famous case studies Happy News! There’s an annual Wildlife Comedy Photography award! See this year’s finalists. Min-readers learned to interpret the patterns as meaningful signals, which they could recognize and use. CNBC has signed a multi-year deal with prediction-market Kalshi, bringing real-time probability data into the network’s TV broadcasts and digital platforms starting next year, 3 ‘rebel’ nuns left an elderly care home and broke into the historic abbey where they had lived their entire adult lives Troop Deployments Eneasz - The Hobos yearn for the Forest 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/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket 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

    1 t. 10 min.

  8. 01.12.2025

    149 - Steven & Ross Return!

    Wes is once again joined by Ross and Steven keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: UN security council adopted Gaza deal “Epstein Files Transparency Act” passed Federal 3-judge panel issued injunction against Texas redistricting Judge Jerry Smith wrote an insane dissent Trump “pausing” Afgan immigration after Afgani shot two national guard soldiers James Comey and Letitia James indictments fell apart Navy deciding whether to recall Mark Kelly to active service so they can court-martial him MIT Technology Review on Gemini 3 Humai on GPT-5.1 Anthropic on Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic disclosed what it calls “the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention Grok 4.1 showed increased sycophancy scores and “slightly higher deception rates” The White House’s response to AI concerns can be summarized as “f**k it, yolo, pedal to the metal!” The Trump administration is reclassifying which degrees count as “professional” under a new student loan program. Happy News! 15yo Belgian just earned a PhD in quantum physics Type one diabetes cured in mice AI+EEG can diagnosis dementia vs. Alzheimer’s vs. healthy Colombia has declared its entire Amazon biome as a reserve CRISPR achieves 50% cholesterol reduction in first human trial It’s Solstice season! Berkeley solstice is next weekend NYC solstice is December - tickets at https://rationalistmegameetup.com/ Steven has a new podcast! 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/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket 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

    1 t. 8 min.
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Your hosts Wesley Fenza, Eneasz Brodski, and David Spearman discuss the week's news. mindkiller.substack.com

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    Wesley Fenza
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    2020 - 2026
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