Episode 89 - The Big Avocado

The Mind Killer

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:

Coroner’s report (Cu2S (known impurity in LK-99) has a first-order phase transition around 378 K accompanied by a large resistivity drop)

Index of replication attempts

Israeli Knesset banned “reasonableness” standard, but nothing further yet

Clarence Thomas is even more corrupt

Reason on common misconceptions about Trump indictment

Jack Smith has Trump’s Twitter DMs

Ohio rejected Republican attempt to rig referendums

Ecuadorian presidential candidate running on anti-organized crime & corruption assassinated at rally. Gunman dead.

DeSantis proposes making student loan debt dischargable via bankruptcy

OpenAI and many others are bottlenecked by lack of GPUs right now

Richard Hahahania not canceled by HuffPo

Eneasz - Anti-tech is necessarily pro-slavery

Happy News!

Cure for cancer???

Cultured Meat approved for sale in US

US suicide rate down to 1960’s levels

Net result cutting 35% of the climate impact of commercial flights if implemented!

US carbon-per-capita down to WW1 levels

Robotor, the automated chisel. Users feed data, it makes detailed marble and stone sculptures.

CA approves robot taxi (of the four accidents reported, all of them are fake news)

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