Episode 88 - The Fake News?

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Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community

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News discussed:

Ukraine Update: Kerch Strait Bridge 2: Electric Boogaloo

Fed still raising interest rates despite inflation being over

Monthly PCE inflation is at 2%

Even the Fed’s janky numbers have inflation at 3%

Judge killed Biden asylum rules

Biden tries student debt forgiveness again

wtf China. Secret chinese biolab in CA, similar to the secret chinese police station.

Niger presidential guard overthrow president and install a military junta.

Fake News!

Room-temp superconductors??

Polymarket says 26%

Aliens!

AI STUFF

The White House secured a voluntary agreement with seven leading AI companies

Meta releases LLAMA-2

Musk starts x.AI

the dumbest alignment plan ever.

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are launching the Frontier Model Forum

Another Senate hearing on AI

Robot servers at restaurant

Happy News

AI takes a prompt (“I want to hold a cup 🍵) and converts it into a 3d printable prosthetic

NASA and DARPA are working on a nuclear cislunar rocket

Blue Origin was able to refine polysilicates from simulated regalith

18 million doses of first-ever malaria vaccine allocated to 12 African countries

Indians mostly stopped shitting in the streets

Take the Poo to the Loo is great success!

Toyota claims a solid-state battery breakthrough for EVs

Sulfur Selenium Solid-State Battery From NASA Breaks Energy Storage Boundaries

enthusiastic Swifties cause seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake in Seattle

Troop Deployments

Wes - chart listing masculine and feminine traits

Eneasz - The Subversiveness of Barbie

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