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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:03:06 - Table of Contents

* 00:06:50 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:07:22 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:07:51 - On Your Marks

* 00:13:41 - VirtueBench

* 00:16:04 - Choose Your Fighter

* 00:16:38 - Papers, Please

* 00:17:05 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:18:46 - Goodhart’s Law Strikes Again

* 00:19:32 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:22:12 - The MidJourney Full Body Imaging Scanner

* 00:24:30 - Introducing

* 00:26:00 - In Other AI News

* 00:28:52 - Show Me the Money

* 00:29:17 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:30:50 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:33:28 - People Just Say Things

* 00:36:58 - The Widened Path

* 00:39:17 - Scott Alexander Lays Out His AI Opinions

* 00:46:01 - Quickly, There’s No Time

* 00:47:04 - Policy On The AI Exponential

* 00:57:03 - Anthropic Offers Two Policy Frameworks

* 00:58:08 - Obligations of Developers

* 01:02:53 - Societal Resilience Measures

* 01:04:12 - Economic Policy Framework

* 01:09:49 - White House Pauses AI Deployment

* 01:18:28 - The Once And Future Fable

* 01:23:27 - How To Fix This Code

* 01:25:11 - The End of Privacy

* 01:26:38 - AIs Have Preferences

* 01:29:27 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 01:32:13 - Chip City

* 01:32:43 - The Week in Audio

* 01:32:52 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:33:29 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:35:14 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:36:27 - The Lighter Side

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