The Mind Killer Wesley Fenza

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
Note: Eneasz recorded himself on the wrong mic this episode, so his audio quality is terrible. Everyone yell at him!
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News discussed:
Assassinated Iranian general at the embassy involved in 'planning and execution' of October 7 massacre
The armorer for the film “Rust” was sentenced to 18 months
News
Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel but didn’t kill anyone 
House passed a bunch of bills
FISA cleared Senate filibuster by one vote, signed into law
Zvi is not happy about it
Special treatment for members of Congress??
Tiktok sale
Biden rolls back Title IX reforms
USAF tests AI-piloted F-16, reports sufficiently skillful flying to shoot down manned fighters.
Cass report on child transgender healthcare in Britain released
FHI shut down at Oxford.
Uri Berliner, senior editor at NPR, says stuff that anyone listening to NPR has known for years
Happy News!
Colorado lets group houses and poly families legally buy housing!
Bone marrow transplants are way easier these days
Boy Finds Rare Gold Roman Bracelet in a Field Where it Was Lying for 2,000 Years
Lots of good boys adopted when one school decides to find a way to make kids want to run 
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News discussed:
IDF hits 3 world central kitchen cars, kills 7
paxlovid doesn't make a difference if you're fully vaxxed :(
Florida abortion ban upheld, but ballot measure also approved
abortion banned in Arizona for any reason other than to save the mother’s life
Trump says Arizona’s abortion ban goes too far
Yassine is no longer white
Did your eyes sustain permanent damage?
Student loan forgiveness is back on the menu, boys!
European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland “had failed to comply with its duties” to combat climate change and meet emissions targets, which violates women's rights?
Meta, Google, and Intel are all unveiling custom new AI chips
udio is legit amazeballs
The Fooming Shoggoths have a couple bangers
Brazilian Supreme Court judge has opened an inquiry into Elon Musk
Harvard removes book bound in human skin
Happy News!
synchron is a neurolink rival
Lumina Probiotic is available for preorder!
first AI tool that can diagnose sepsis
robot dog averts bloodshed
Sesame Street Robot Dog song
Troop Deployment
Eneasz -  Death Is Bad on Lies
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News discussed:
Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination
Israel plans 1km wide (.6mile) buffer zone around entirety of gaza (pic)
Chuck Schumer called for elections in Israel
CAR-T cell therapy for glioblastoma (a brain cancer) a big success in clinical trials
Truth Social went public, somehow valued at $5 billion
Trump gets special treatment again
Trump predicted a “bloodbath” (for the auto industry?) if he’s not elected
EPAs new fleet standards will “require” at least 56% of new vehicles to be electric by 2032
Congress passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill and now the nutball caucus is trying to remove the speaker again
Lyft and Uber pull out of Minneapolis after legislature mandates higher pay
National Association of Realtors lawsuit settlement will end 6% commission system?
Supreme Court to rule on abortion drug mifepristone this summer
Musk Compensation. 
Judge ruled that this is too much profit, and also Musk would have done the work anyway, and also the board was too close to Musk so the contract was a collaborative process rather than a true negotiation, and that stockholders don’t know what’s best for them
Fed officials penciled in three quarter-percentage point cuts by the end of 2024
Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Massive Franken-Sheep With Cloned Animal Parts
Happy News!
Gene-editted pig kidney transplanted into human
Federal judiciary finally banned judge shopping
New York Disbars Infamous Copyright Troll
High Schooler Achyuta Rajaram wins Regeneron science and math competition 
A pill that kills ticks!
women taking Ozempic getting pregnant despite using birth control and/or experiencing fertility issues
Austin build so much housing that housing ACTUALLY GOT CHEAPER!
Troop Deployment
Eneasz -  Housespouse is the greatest and best job in the world
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News discussed:
Alabama passed a law protecting IVF providers from liability
Anti-abortion groups are not happy about it
Putin threatens nukes if western troops used, again
SCOTUS voted 9-0 to allow Trump on the Ballot
Biden gave a big speech and didn’t sound too old!
Congress swamped with calls to not ban TikTok after TikTok mobilized users with easy “call now” button. 
Trump flipped flopped and is pro-TikTok now after meeting with a big TikTok investor
Wendy’s introduces dynamic pricing
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for not being open enough and being too much AI
Elon Tweets
US evacuates Haitian embassy staff amid gang violence
Oregon re-criminalized drugs after downtown turned into a nightmare
Gaza Ministry of Health blatantly fakes casualty numbers
Spanish soldiers change gender
Claude 3 gets ~60% accuracy on GPQA
needle-in-the-haystack eval
Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6B as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia invest $675M
Happy News!
Sacramento eliminated exclusionary zoning
France makes history by enshrining abortion rights in its constitution
Detroit is considering Georgist land value taxes!
CDC’s new COVID guidance now matches public health advice for flu and other respiratory illnesses
FDA approves a drug for frostbite
Garbage collectors came across a fire. 49yo Steve Whitehouse climbed up to a 2nd-floor balcony three times to rescue a man, a woman, and their dog, before firefighters arrived.
Zvi: “We Can’t Help But Notice” AI post
Anthropic post
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News discussed:
The Hugo Committee itself was responsible for the censorship, doing it voluntarily and preemptively!
Intuitive Machines is now the first commercial outfit to put a spacecraft on the Moon.
Phil Metzger describes: Imagine you built an experimental payload and it is going on a test ride to the Moon. Then the spacecraft engineers ask if they can use your *payload* to *navigate* for *lunar landing*, something never planned for, and they write a software patch in lunar orbit, and it WORKS 
Sweden’s bid to join NATO has been officially ratified. The Baltic is officially Lake NATO
Navalny killed in prison
Also  Russia is going to nuke us from spaaaaaace!
2 yr anniversary of invasion
Trump business fraud verdict: $355 million!
Trump: “it’s a form of Navalny”
Netanyahu’s proposed Gaza plan allows Israeli military freedom of action in Gaza, and establishes a buffer zone.
Egypt is building a border wall w Gaza. no word on if they’ll make the Gazans pay for it
Israel launched strikes in Lebanon in response to rocket attacks by Hezbollah 
Alabama made IVF illegal in its borders.(e)
Clinics are closing
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Nikki Haley got 40% of the vote in South Carolina
Google’s new AI “Gemini” had its image-generation turned off due to unexpected results. Yishan argues this is AI misalignment, but Days argues this is intentional and the only “unexpected” part was the backlash
Happy News!
Greece legalises same-sex marriage
Guatemala did a reverse Jan 6th!
World's largest supply of lithium found beneath California's Salton Sea. Could meet America's demand for decades to come (at current rates?).  AND discovery of 2.34 billion metric tons of rare-earth elements near Wheatland, Wyo., is estimated to be the richest in the world
UPSIDE Foods, the first lab to get FDA approval for commercial production of lab-grown meat, has announced construction of their first laboratory, starting with a focus on chicken production.
Chris Anderson describes it as “DELICIOUS. Succulent, moist, the right texture. Chicken as it should be.”
program launching this month allocated 250,000 Swiss francs, or roughly $285,000 US, to pay reviewers to find mistakes in influential scientific papers 
Scott Alexander gives Bet On Love team permission to do Unsong Musical
Eneasz -  Luck is Other People's Work
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News discussed:
Natural Gas Ban doesn’t apply to countries that we have Free Trade Agreements with 
They’ve now read several pages of the Pompeii scrolls
Gwern saw this coming.
DC Circuit says Trump isn’t immune from prosecution
Hamas data center found under UNRWA headquarters
Republicans failed to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas 
FAA practiced racial discrimination in hiring for ~10 years
NIkki Haley lost to “None of the Above” in Nevada primary
Biden absolutely crushed it in South Carolina. Poor Dean Phillips 😢Poor America
Special counsel declined to prosecute Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
Sam Altman wants to overhaul semiconductor supply chain
Remember that all journalists lie
Happy News!
ACX grants announced!
Hereditary angioedema is a single-mutation genetic disease that has been cured in human subjects using CRISPR
Biden admin offering $1.5bil loan to keep Michigan nuclear plant open
James Webb Space Telescope finds what may be bright galaxies waaaaaay too early in time
First Neuralink implanted in a human!
14 yr old into insects discovers a new one, helps write a paper on it and name it.
Aella finds true love at last
Coast Guard doing routine inspection rescue dog trapped in a shipping container for 8 days
Troop Deployments
Eneasz - Any Community That Tolerates Trauma Junkies Is Unsafe For Everyone Else
Wes - Prenups Should be Mandatory
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