Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News discussed:
Trump kicked off the Maine ballot
Congress only passed 27 bills last year
Israel uncovered a major Hamas command center in the heart of Gaza City
They are also withdrawing troops
Saleh Arouri, the deputy political head of Hamas and a founder of the group’s military wing, killed in a drone strike in Beirut
Israel Supreme Court struck down the judicial reform law
Denmark has a woke king after old queen abdicates
Link for a general update to the Red Sea situation
US Navy sunk three of four small boats from the Iran-backed Houthi rebels
A trade group for social media companies sued Utah over laws prohibiting minors from using social media between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. unless authorized by a parent
Chinese professor used AI to write a science fiction “novel” that won a national competition.
66-year-old dude stabs South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung in the neck
The IRS will waive penalty fees for people who failed to pay back taxes
Eneasz’s story about AI and fanfic
Happy News!
“Steamboat Willie” is out of copyright after 96 MFin’ years.
AI was trained on experimental data and used to identify chemical substructures that underlie selective antibiotic activity. This led to the discovery of a new structural class of antibiotics
Feng Zhou at NYU created tiny DNA robots. It can reproduce itself
Uber Driver Returns $8,000 to Teen Who Left the Christmas Cash in His Car
Army veteran Juan Serrano in Virginia jumped 50 feet off a bridge to save a suicidal teen
Troop Deployment
David - Scott Alexander’s dadpost
Eneasz - Societies will collapse under war and bloodshed/ school makes kids suicidal
Wes - Against Commitment
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Episode 99 - The Public Good of Journalism