Episode 83 - Sweet David Content

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: California, Arizona and Nevada agrees to cut at least 3 million acre-feet of water China has banned US chip maker Micron from selling to Chinese companies working on key infrastructure projects Trump found liable for sexual assault Feds approved Manhattan congestion pricing plan Was Qualified Immunity snuck in by an a*****e? Meta has been fined a record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European Union regulators for violating EU privacy laws by transferring the personal data of Facebook users to servers in the United States Supreme Court upholds California ban on 'unethical' pork, Proposition 12 Gorsuch opinion! Rules against plaintiffs attempting to hold Google + Twitter financially liable for terrorists Andy Warhol estate infringed a photographers copyright in a photograph of the musician Prince when it licensed an image Warhol derived from that photograph to serve as a magazine cover Extreme dissent by Kagan Rebuttal to dissent from Sotomayor  The rich and fabulous will still be able to get licenses when they need them, but the poor and obscure won’t,  White House AI meeting - Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, + Kamala Harris Altman testifies before Congress, recommends regulation Senator Blumenthal (D-CT): "I think you have said, in fact, and I'm gonna quote, 'Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.' You may have had in mind the effect on jobs” Sam Altman has privately suggested OpenAI may try to raise as much as $100 billion in the coming years to achieve its aim of developing artificial general intelligence that is advanced enough to improve its own capabilities OpenAI published an official public statement on regulation. Anthropic's chat context window expanded to 100k tokens Who pissed off the Orcas?  Happy News! Semaglutide ends addictive behavior for some users? People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting Pill form passed phase 3 trial 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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