Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective
News discussed:
A pretty good open-source LLM with a webapp interface has been released
Iran 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 Ohio
Reporters trying to find out what the heck happened getting arrested
Turkey hit with 7.8 & 7.5 mag earthquakes. 35K dead. Reports that building codes were waived for years partly responsible.
H5N1 can/has spread to mammals
OpenAI released an AI safety policy proposal. It sucks unbelievable quantities of ass.
Getty Images suing Stable Diffusing for 1.8 Trillion
A judge in Colombia used ChatGPT to make a court ruling
Democrats made South Carolina the first primary instead of Iowa
New Hampshire is not playing ball
Happy News!
California nuked its zoning code
Developers are sharing creative ideas
India discovers 5.9m tonnes of Lithium!
Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease in 2022
SpaceX successfully static-fire tests Starship
A 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 developed
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
Episode 76 - Can You Believe This Clown Show?