Mike and Ting talk about friction maxxing and AI emotions.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for TR-49.

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Show Notes:

Pre-Chat

• Can 'friction-maxxing' fix your focus? - BBC Future
• Butlerian Jihad | Dune Wiki
• WALL·E (2008) - IMDb
• Soul (2020) - IMDb
• The promise and warning of Truth Terminal, the AI bot that secured $50,000 in bitcoin from Marc Andreessen | TechCrunch
• Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model \ Anthropic
• "Just give me the f***ing links!"—Cursing disables Google's AI overviews - Ars Technica
• OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances | Tom's Hardware
• OpenAI closes Sora video-making app and cancels $1bn Disney deal