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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: IDF hits 3 world central kitchen cars, kills 7 paxlovid doesn't make a difference if you're fully vaxxed :( Florida abortion ban upheld, but ballot measure also approved abortion banned in…
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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: Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination Israel plans 1km wide (.6mile) buffer zone around entirety of gaza (pic) Chuck Schumer called for…
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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: Alabama passed a law protecting IVF providers from liability Anti-abortion groups are not happy about it Putin threatens nukes if western troops used, again SCOTUS voted 9-0 to allow Trump…
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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: The Hugo Committee itself was responsible for the censorship, doing it voluntarily and preemptively! Intuitive Machines is now the first commercial outfit to put a spacecraft on the Moon. …
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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: Natural Gas Ban doesn’t apply to countries that we have Free Trade Agreements with They’ve now read several pages of the Pompeii scrolls Gwern saw this coming. DC Circuit says Trump isn’t …
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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: SCOTUS voted 5-4 to say Texas needs to let in the feds Texas is… not complying? Canadian highest court held that invoking of Emergency Act during trucker protest was unlawful Apple to have…
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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: Claudine Gay resigned The IRS will waive penalty fees for people who failed to pay back taxes Texas seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, prevent Border Patrol agents from entering …
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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: Claudine Gay resigned Trump kicked off the Maine ballot NYT sued OpenAI Congress only passed 27 bills last year Israel uncovered a major Hamas command center in the heart of Gaza City They…
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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…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! Sam Altman is back at OpenAI! Not fake news - future news! George Santos actually expelled this time Scientists got a whole-ass Earth-plant to grow in lunar regolith Gaza pause didn’t last long, but the o…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindkiller.substack.com 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: George Santos wasn’t actually expelled, they just tried And they’re trying again SpaceX gets FAA appro…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News Links: SBF guilty on all charges We have a speaker of the house! He doesn’t have a bank account?!? First bill passed: $14 billion in aid for Israel plus $14 billion in cuts for IRS Biden Executive Or…
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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: Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying $1.1B Caroline Ellison of FTX admits on the stand that Sam bribed Chinese officials with $100M to unfreeze their assets, purposel…
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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: Azerbaijan won The Free Press says this is Israel’s 9/11 They randomly massacred a music festival, taken many hostages “Declare a humanitarian interest in liberating Gaza from Hamas' theoc…
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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: FAA is “optimistic [about issuing a license] sometime next month" for Starship’s second launch Government shutdown impending this weekend New war just dropped between Armenia and Azerbaija…
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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: Intuitive Machines, the company behind the private moon lander, released a video of a test-fire of its landing engines Fifth Circuit injunction preventing government from censoring social …
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Wes and David are joined by Jamiel to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Prighozin, Utkin, and more or less all Wagner head honchos dead after a Wagner-owned private plane was shot down Chinese real-estate company Evergrande files for bankruptcy……
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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: 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 bann…
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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: 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 infl…
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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: Inflation is over Crazy Trump judge issued an injunction against government talking to social media companies ONE WEIRD TRICK! - Wisconsin gov used line-item veto to rewrite law to guarant…
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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: Perun (sp?) video Weird aborted coup in Russia If a cop has a gun in your face and you try to escape anyway, presumably what the cop would find is worse for you than taking a bullet France…
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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: Trump indicted again Statement on AI risks The draft of the AI Bill of Rights is currently garbage Google’s DeepMind: AlphaDev uncovered new and improved sorting algorithms Language Models…
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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: Oathkeeper leader Stewart Rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy “He was the one giving the orders,” Judge Mehta said Major loss of access to transgender healthcare in Florida Also…
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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 pro…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! Extra stuff for subscribers this episode: * Is Disney actually popular? * What is the Kremlin? * Tradwife feminism * Roxie wants to be a cowboy! News discussed: Eneasz was wrong: Supermassive black hole w…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! We had a number of digressions this week that were edited out. Become an MK Ultra to get access to over 4 minutes of additional content! News discussed: Hypnosis, LSD, and the Unabomber Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber SCOTU…
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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: DEA ruins telemedicine Trump is already selling mug shots The liberals won the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat Senate voted to repeal 2002 AUMF McCarthy says House will probably pass it, but …
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Credit Suisse collapsed and bought by UBS RESTRICT Act seems like a big Executive power grab Utah is building a registry of all residents that use social media. RIP David Also requires parental consent for anyone un…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: S**t is going down in Israel Big protests over Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms New proposals would give political appointees a majority Elite fighter squadron is boycotting training Silicon Valley Bank is inso…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! 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 increasingl…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about things going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! 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 officia…
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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! Support us on Substack! 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 car…
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Wes and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective WITHOUT Eneasz for once Support us on Substack! 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…
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Show notes: Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! 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 …
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! 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…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! 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 “poor…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David are joined this week by Aella to discuss THE SEXY NEWS Support us on Substack! 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 s…
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Wes and David from The Mind Killer show up for a special cross-over episode. We discuss How Stewart Made Tucker Listen to The Bayesian Conspiracy :) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribeBy Eneasz Brodski, David, The Economic Model, and Wesley Fenza
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! 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 sma…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindkiller.substack.com Wes, Eneasz, and David invite Weer’d from Assorted Calibers on to talk all things guns! Support us on Substack! Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll …
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Ohio court blocks six-week abortion ban indefinitely Paypal will seize your assets to punish speech they don’t like. Anything that in their opinion promotes intolerance or is discriminatory. US Treasury Dept. bans m…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! Railroad strike averted? Or delayed? Fifth Circuit decided that 1A doesn’t protect website’s right to moderate Nord Stream blowed up Italians vote in right wing populists, Good speeching? German Economy Minister to German people: “…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Note: next episode will be 24-48 hours late due to Eneasz’s travel schedule Support us on Substack! News discussed: Probable cause claimed for evidence of obstruction in Trump affidavit Sarah Palin lost her bid for Alaska’s house seat Palin only got 50% o…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: IRA’s corporate minimum tax is written to apply to 150 companies. If a corporation pays the AMT, a credit against future corporate regular tax is carried forward. Jakeup asserts “rich Americans subsidizing drug deve…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Democrats agreed on environmental/inflation bill Airfield in Crimea spontaneously combusts Also, a conscript barracks in Moscow caught fire. No casualties reported. Also, a Belarusian air force base also spontaneous…
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