Episode 98 - No Ballot for You!

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Guyana & Venezuela both pledged not to use force The likely first longevity drug is based on sketchy science. Colorado Supreme Court banned Trump’s name from the ballot More trouble in the Suez Ivy league presidents are terrible at PR Beff Jezos doxxed by Forbes Epic Games v. Google found that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly. Texas makes illegally crossing the border a state crime, enabling state police to arrest suspects Texas Supreme Court ruled that “good faith belief” of doctor is not enough for exception to abortion ban Giuliani ordered to pay $148M for spreading lies about Georgia election workers Biden Administration announced it is setting new policy that will allow it to seize patents for medicines developed with government funding if it believes their prices are too high. House formally approves Biden impeachment inquiry Happy News! a specially trained LLM asked to write short computer programs that can generate solutions to a particular mathematical problem outdoes human mathematicians Tesla drops a demo video of Optimus Gen2 The FDA approved two sickle cell disease treatments, including its first-ever approval of a therapy that uses the groundbreaking gene-editing tool CRISPR Troop Deployments Spirituality Takes Time TracingWoodgrains’ post about Nonlinear and Lightcone  Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at [email protected]. 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

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