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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:02:06 - Table of Contents

* 00:05:31 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:52 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:09:13 - Do The Math

* 00:12:26 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:13:23 - On Your Marks

* 00:14:42 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 00:15:22 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:24:00 - Copyright Confrontation

* 00:24:12 - Cyber Lack of Security

* 00:26:34 - Overcoming Bias

* 00:28:38 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:30:14 - Unprompted Attention

* 00:30:25 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:34:08 - Get Involved

* 00:35:56 - Introducing

* 00:36:05 - In Other AI News

* 00:37:58 - Show Me the Money

* 00:40:05 - Show Me The Compute

* 00:40:44 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:42:24 - People Just Say Things

* 00:47:04 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things

* 00:47:17 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:49:54 - State AI Regulation Levels Up

* 00:51:50 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 00:52:29 - White House Attempts To Cripple American AI Industry

* 00:55:25 - Our Offer Is Nothing

* 01:02:11 - Chip City

* 01:02:26 - Greetings From The Department of War

* 01:03:39 - Marc Andreessen Just Says Things

* 01:11:18 - So Sayeth The Pope

* 01:18:12 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:25:45 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:27:23 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:29:27 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:30:40 - Everyone Is Confused About Consciousness

* 01:36:50 - The Lighter Side

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:03:09 - Table of Contents

* 00:03:50 - A Brief History of Magnifica Humanitas

* 00:13:50 - Economic Models Very Different From Our Own

* 00:15:47 - A New Jerusalem

* 00:18:08 - So Sayeth The Pope (on AI)

* 00:34:03 - The Case Against Human Achievement

* 00:37:01 - Truth, Justice and the Vatican Way

* 00:40:03 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:45:19 - What Is Not Fair In Love and War

* 00:52:21 - Come Ye Christian Faithful

* 00:54:55 - The Other Missing Mood

* 00:57:31 - Pope Given About Five Words

* 01:01:20 - The Anthropic Principle

* 01:03:29 - Claude Can Read Your Code

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:38 - Introducing Google Gemini three point five ‘Flash’

* 05:20 - Other People’s Benchmarks

* 06:34 - Reactions

* 12:29 - Google AI Search

* 13:21 - Google Daily Brief

* 14:29 - Google I/O Day

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:01:17 - Table of Contents

* 00:04:46 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:42 - Do The Math

* 00:07:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:08:35 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:08:48 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins

* 00:10:43 - On Your Marks

* 00:11:13 - METR Frontier Risk Report

* 00:14:57 - Choose Your Fighter

* 00:15:40 - Overcoming Bias

* 00:16:18 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 00:17:34 - Your Prize Is Slop

* 00:24:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:28:38 - Cyber Lack of Security

* 00:30:17 - Copyright Confrontation

* 00:30:26 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:32:37 - Unprompted Attention

* 00:32:51 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:38:20 - Get Involved

* 00:39:20 - Introducing

* 00:40:09 - In Other AI News

* 00:41:44 - Show Me the Money

* 00:44:12 - Show Me The Compute

* 00:45:32 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:49:21 - Time’s Up

* 00:50:37 - People Just Say Things

* 00:53:46 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things

* 00:57:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 01:00:16 - Chip City

* 01:04:04 - Pick Up The Phone

* 01:04:33 - The Week in Audio

* 01:04:50 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:11:14 - Missing Mood

* 01:18:07 - Americans Really Hate AI

* 01:20:33 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:25:54 - Greetings From The Department of War

* 01:30:28 - Messages From Janusworld

* 01:30:48 - The Lighter Side

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:35 - People Don’t Let Kids Do Things

* 03:26 - Half The People Are Worse Than Average

* 04:29 - Let Your Children Play

* 05:53 - Don’t Fear The CPS

* 10:14 - Daycare

* 13:13 - Daycare Costs

* 15:39 - Lying

* 17:53 - Iterated Games

* 18:31 - Different Kids Are Different

* 19:22 - Punishments

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:13 - You’re Single Because You Suck At Kissing

* 01:21 - You’re Not Single But You’re Sexually Incompatible

* 02:48 - You’re Single Because You Aren’t Into BDSM

* 08:19 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Do The Work

* 16:18 - You’re Single Because Being a Dominant Is Too Much Work

* 23:15 - You’re Single And Would Rather Be Free Use

* 26:02 - You’re Single Because You Wouldn’t or Did Choke Her

* 27:37 - You’re Single Because You Have Very Particular Preferences

* 29:18 - You’re Single Because of Polygyny

* 30:19 - You’re Single Because Polyamory Isn’t Right For You

* 33:58 - You’re Single And Call It Solo Polyamory

* 37:55 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Go To Slutcon

* 45:49 - You’re Single So Let’s Marry Aella

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:15 - Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta

* 04:18 - Bad News

* 08:42 - Predictions Can Be Easy Even About The Future

* 08:50 - Good Advice

* 11:49 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False

* 13:48 - There Are Four Skills

* 16:31 - While I Cannot Condone This

* 21:07 - Good News, Everyone

* 21:48 - For Your Entertainment

* 22:19 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

* 24:22 - The Spire Sleeps And So Shall I

* 29:42 - I Was Promised Flying, Scratch that, Self-Driving Cars

* 32:13 - Government Working

* 35:58 - Jones Act Watch

* 41:55 - Technology Advances

* 43:04 - I Said Woo Hoo

* 44:31 - Variously Effective Altruism

* 45:04 - The Lighter Side

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:00:29 - Table of Contents

* 00:03:59 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:05:43 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:07:23 - Levels of Friction

* 00:08:35 - On Your Marks

* 00:10:04 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 00:13:14 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:14:34 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:16:38 - On AI Writing

* 00:19:51 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:22:25 - You Drive Me Crazy

* 00:23:14 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:25:26 - The Art of the Jailbreak

* 00:25:42 - Introducing

* 00:26:24 - Claude Has Its Limits

* 00:27:28 - Show Me the Money

* 00:29:21 - Show Me The Compute

* 00:31:08 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:32:34 - Quickly, There’s No Time

* 00:33:34 - Chip City

* 00:34:41 - Pick Up The Phone

* 00:35:17 - The Week in Audio

* 00:35:45 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 00:40:18 - Not Leading the Future

* 00:46:14 - Elon Musk v OpenAI

* 00:47:15 - People Just Say Things

* 00:47:41 - People Just Publish Things

* 00:48:39 - OpenAI Endroses Kosa And SB 315

* 00:52:13 - The LLMs All Believe Roughly Similar Things

* 00:54:58 - I Learned It By Reading YOU

* 01:13:31 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:25:00 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:26:51 - Messages From Janusworld

* 01:28:48 - People Worried About AI For Other Reasons

* 01:29:17 - The Lighter Side

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:28 - On Your Marks

* 06:25 - How Good Is Mythos?

* 13:15 - Cyber Lack of Security

* 16:57 - Greetings From The Department of War

* 18:34 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins

* 23:29 - Commerce Versus Intelligence

* 30:28 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:36 - Education Research Is Worse Than You Know

* 04:33 - The War on Math

* 06:52 - University of California San Diego

* 14:35 - Beyond UCSD

* 16:22 - New York Can’t Do Math

* 17:33 - The Academic Standards Seem Low

* 20:38 - New Math

* 22:48 - Math Anxiety Is Often Due To Knowledge Gaps

* 25:18 - Calculus By Eighth Grade Is Highly Practical For Many

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