Episode 82 - Everyone Was Wrong!

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport 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 was not 3x the size of our galaxyDavid was right: New York banned gas stoves in new constructionWes and David were wrong: Alec Baldwin charges dropped because gun could have fired without trigger pull Disney finally sued DeSantisDrone “attacks” the KremlinMuch-hyped Russian hypersonic missile was successfully intercepted by a PatriotHollywood writers are striking againMedian writer pay has decreased by 23% in the past 5 years (inflation adjusted)No more PornHub in UtahFree Speech Coalition filed lawsuit to challenge the law.New housing policy has people with good credit subsidize people with bad creditChina sanctions Lockheed, RaytheonAlso raiding, arresting, or investigating many large foreign companiesChinese Police Station shut down in NYC’s ChinatownAI News:MIT researchers use AI to design novel proteins with specific structural featuresGPT-4 as data scientist. With Code Interpreter model, just upload the data and provide instructions in simple englishGeoffrey Hinton (AI pioneer/”godfather”) quit Google to doom-sayMSM is actually taking this stuff seriously now. Massive change from even a couple months ago.Yann LeCun, head of Meta’s AI division, says we’ll just program the AI to not kill us, obviouslyEurope and China and USA on AI regulation. Not Like This vibes, but if it slows things down… maybe?Closed LLMs (Google, OpenAI) “Cannot Compete Against Open Source” Can you convince YudBot to sell you a GPU cluster?AI Tutorials 1 2Happy News!Washington State is going full YIMBYNew shape-shifting antibiotics fight medically-resistant bacterial infectionsCars are getting back physical buttonsHero kid grabs wheel of school bus and applies brakes after driver passes out.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/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com