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News discussed:

A pretty good open-source LLM with a webapp interface has been released

Iran Followup - young couple give (combined) 10year jail sentence for dancing in public (and filming it)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard increasingly deployed in protest crack-downs.

East Palestine, Ohio local police department declares unrestricted chemical warfare on Ohio

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Reporters trying to find out what the heck happened getting arrested

Turkey hit with 7.8 & 7.5 mag earthquakes. 35K dead. Reports that building codes were waived for years partly responsible. 

Jobs for everyone!

H5N1 can/has spread to mammals

OpenAI released an AI safety policy proposal. It sucks unbelievable quantities of ass.

Getty Images suing Stable Diffusing for 1.8 Trillion

The eighth seal of the apocalypse has broken, and the deepfake boner pill scams have poured forth to cover the Earth

A judge in Colombia used ChatGPT to make a court ruling

Democrats made South Carolina the first primary instead of Iowa

New Hampshire is not playing ball

Covid is over… on May 11th

Happy News!

California nuked its zoning code

Developers are sharing creative ideas

India discovers 5.9m tonnes of Lithium!

Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease in 2022

SpaceX successfully static-fire tests Starship

A new way to significantly increase the potency of almost any vaccine has been developed by International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) at Northwestern University. The paper is here.

Brain Cancer Vaccine being developed

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News discussed:

Bounded distrust

The SCOTUS leak investigation fizzled out

Classified documents also found at Mike Pence’s house!

Eight in 10 people in China caught Covid since early December, say officials

Israel strikes Iranian drone plant with their own drone strike

NATO countries sending Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, US sending Abrams 1 

Russia pushing into Donetsk, striking before tanks arrive

Huge increase in homicides is persisting

Tyr Nicoles beat to death by police earlier this month

Gas stoves became the main character of the internet for some reason

F**k that noise (Zvi)

Trump indictment decisions are “imminent” in Georgia election interference case

Conversely, New York chickenshit prosecutors failed to charge in Stormy Daniels case

“class action” copyright lawsuit filed against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney related to Stable Diffusion.

Apparently it’s b******t

Real estate agents using ChatGPT commercially

After CA votes to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in operation, NRC says “nah”

Some auto insurers are refusing to cover certain Hyundai and Kia models

Happy News!

(fake happy news) China considers banning export of solar panel components

Climeworks pulled CO2 from the air stored it underground

Research on pain-insensitivity gene continues.

Endangered Species Act has saved hundreds from extinction

Artificial Pancreas looks to be twice as good as normal insulin injection

Troop Deployment Links

Jon Stokes’ and Construction Physics substacks are quite good. 

David recommends this piece on the Stability lawsuit And this piece on why automatic bricklayers don’t exist.

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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective, with special guests appearances by Charlie and Gray!

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News discussed:

The Electoral Count Reform Act was passed

Finally got enough on the 15th ballot

Mexico captures El Chapo’s son (again) and has a literal military battle with cartels. 

Brazil’s Jan 6th happened on Jan 8th.

By one estimate, the US has sent close to 1/5th of our artillery shell stockpile to Ukraine, which will take 2yrs to replenish at current rates

Language Models can make completely de novo proteins that are viable in the wetlab. William Eden has the best take.

LLMs can discern cause & effect

When Google tuned a AI chatbot to answer common medical questions, doctors judged 92.6% of its answers right

It also passed the Official medical exam

Braced pistols now regulated under same rules as SBRs

Sexy News Update - more than 75% of casual sex isn’t ONS, it’s an extended sexual relationship with a friend/acquaintance. 

Ecuadorian man changes gender to route around sexist laws

Happy News!

South Carolina court found right to abortion in Constitution up to 20 weeks

FDA lifted rule banning mifepristone (abortion pill) from being sold in pharmacies

Tom Lehrer put all of his music in the public domain

The End Poem of Minecraft is too!

FTC is (probably) banning non-compete clauses!!

Counterpoint from Tyler Cowen

Japan is NukeMaxxing!

DUKE NUCLEAR!

In big New Atheist win, Congressman Was Sworn Into Office With Rare Superman Comic

Eneasz crossed a bridge

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News discussed:

California court declared that anything good violates CEQA

George Santos (R-NY) is a big fat phony

Spencer Greenberg podcast featuring Elizabeth Edwards-Appell

NY “Right to Repair” law passed but made useless

a bunch of standard cell lines are THE WRONG CELLS (h/t Sarah Constantin)

Happy News!

Colorado decriminalization DMT, psilocybin, mescaline, and ibogane

Researchers deactivated the BRD8 protein that’s key to this cancer using a pioneering gene editing technique. stopped the tumor growth in its tracks

27-year-old Jay Withey saved the lives of two dozen people during the deadly storm by rescuing strangers from cars trapped in the snow and bringing them into a school for shelter.

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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective

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News discussed:

Kirsten Synema left the Democratic Party. MAVERICK!

Jan. 6th committee referred Trump for charges

Trump Org found guilty of tax fraud

Prospera sues Honduras for approximately 30% of its GDP

SBF arrested and indicted 

bad news for school emancipation 

the Islamic Republic of Iran was just expelled from the U.N. Women's Rights Commission.

China reverses covid policy

Happy News!

Net-gain in fusion power breakthrough, kinda-sorta

Edit T-cell genomes (not gnomes) for great cancer-busting justice!

Organ-on-chips allow for direct drug testing on human tissue

Eneasz on his first rationalist solstice

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News discussed:

A top Iranian official has said that the nation’s mandatory hijab law is being reviewed

Special counsel appointed to investigate Trump

Another round of China protests over Covid lockdowns

Sparked by fire in a locked-down apt, possibly extra harsh due to being Uyghur neighborhood/building 

Definitely unrelated to anything else going on, Jiang Zemin died

NATO allies capping Russian Oil at $60/barrel? “In essence, such a decree would ban the export of oil and petroleum products to countries and companies that apply it.” (Doesn’t apply to pipelines, yet) covers more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports coming into the EU. India, China and Turkey not affected. 

US Strategic Petroleum Reserve at record lows, down 1/3rd from a year ago

Cicero in top 10% of Diplomacy players. (more)

ChatGPT can do anything, including modeling itself in an imaginary internet, or describe how to take over the world. Does slightly worse than average human on SAT, and it’s retarded.

Advent of Code competition is being won by GPT

CarperAI released OpenELM, an open-source large language model 

AI superpowers - can tell race via chest Xray. Can tell sex via retina scan (87%)

Twitter Files confirm what we knew - Hunter Biden laptop is real, DNC has direct access to Twitter’s censors, asked for it to be censored, request granted. Seems if this is a big deal or not depends on how you feel about govt suppression of this story.

Core inflation down to 2.7%

Wikipedia influences the law

Former anti-abortion leader claims Justice Alito leaked Hobby Lobby decision

A 32 year old woman is trying to sue the doctors that did the surgery she requested

Happy News!

A woman who has a concealed carry license took on four armed men who tried to carjack her

We developed a new multivalent mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes.

After each game, Japanese WorldCup fans pick up litter. 

900 megawatt “water battery” with a storage capacity of 20 million kilowatt hours debuts in Switzerland next week

CAR T-Cell Therapy Sends Lupus into Remission

New farm robot can specifically target individual weeds and crops

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News discussed:

European LNG prices went temporarily negative!

Iran protesters shooting at police 

Ligma/Johnson team rehired!

Thehill.com reporters covered the story

Dobbs helped the Democrats keep the Senate

FTX News:

$8b in “poorly labeled fiat account” was probably the money forgotten at Alameda

SBF had a back door in their bookkeeping software that let him alter records at will

Hundreds of millions funneled out in a “hack”, was actually govt asset seizure. 

US bankruptcy courts unhappy.

tons of laundering happened via NFTs

Turns out it was b******t tho

EA Future Fund team all resigned

SBF DM conversation with Kelsey Piper

NYT gives him a b*****b

…probably because he is the driving tech force behind the crypto regulation bill DCCPA

Matt Yglesias says that a few years ago, NYT reporters were all told to cover tech negatively

Kelsey Piper confirms

the DHS has been pressuring social media companies to censor naughty opinions. 

The Disinfo Board never closed, it just went dark 

YouTube censors factual information

Dummies were spreading a conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi

Ukrainian defense missile hits Poland, making for a dicey few hours

Scientists have recreated the 1918 flu virus and infected macaques. 

Reporter jailed in Texas for reporting what the police told her. 

In 2017, cops jailed Priscilla Villarreal in Laredo, Texas.

Hot women get better grades

Happy News!

Ross Chastain used a video game hack in real NASCAR

Colorado decriminalized psilocybin mushroom possession for adults

Sickle-Cell Anemia may very well be curable right now, FDA might approve stuff by the end of the decade!

By splitting a single laser beam into different wavelengths of light, frequencies can carry data by modulating their amplitude, phase, and polarization.

carbon capture and storage grew 44 percent over the past 12 months. 

US needs to remove 2 billion tons annually to be neutral, world needs 10B annually 

New Battery allows for 10-minute fast charging on just about any EV battery 

Respect for Marriage Act moves forward

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Wes, Eneasz, and David are joined this week by Aella to discuss THE SEXY NEWS

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Sexy Tech News:

No sex in the Metaverse

“Anti-Cancer Drug Gives Boars Super-Sperm”

Design for sex-ready moon colony!

Female Orgasms Come in Three Distinct Types—But Women Tend To Get Just One 

Sexy Social News:

The Kids Today aren’t having as much sex as previous generations

Twenty-somethings in China prefer pets and online gaming to sex, study finds 

Canadian Court found that “stealthing” can be sexual assault

Everyone Has Autogynephilia (except transmen) 

The Bayesian Conspiracy on Autogynephilia 

Wild card:

Monkeys use stones as sex toys

Pope issued warning to nuns and priest to quit watching so much porn

Hans Niemann accused of using wifi anal beads to cheat at chess

Happy News!

End of Singapore's gay sex-ban 

Tokyo begins issuing same-sex couples partnership certificates 

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We discuss How Stewart Made Tucker

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News discussed:

The Iranian woman killed was a Kurd, this happened in the Kurdish section of Iran, and this is significant.

Biden killed the Chinese semiconductor industry

Satellite data implies China's GDP is about $7 trillion smaller than what the CCP says

China’s official economic data due this week delayed, no reason given

It’s been released

Xi cements power 

Chinese stock market crashes

More lethal strain of COVID created in Boston University lab

Also Monkeypox!

CDC's advisory committee unanimous recommends adding COVID vaccine to the “recommended” immunization schedule for children

It’s now been added. Youngkin says VA won’t add it

Rishi Sunak will be next British PM

He’s kind of a techbro

Ukraine air space is increasingly the first Drone War

Drone Joust!

Europe has too much LNG?

Prices falling, but still 3x average

one big lesson from COVID is that some people really *want* to make visible, token sacrifices for the common good.

Happy News!

After careful consideration, the German government decided not to let German people freeze to death. Or, at least, not this winter anyway.

Also, Sweden taking the nukepill

Cost of shipping a container from China to US down to under $2,300! 

This 2,000 year-old gold bracelet from the ruins of Pompeii reads “From a master to his slave girl.”

Firefighter catches suicidal man mid-air

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