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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:03:40 - Table of Contents
00:07:24 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
00:11:03 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
00:14:37 - Levels of Friction
00:16:51 - Huh, Upgrades
00:17:09 - On Your Marks
00:17:22 - Lack of Cybersecurity
00:19:03 - Meta Game
00:26:24 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
00:27:18 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
00:29:01 - Let My People Go
00:30:15 - You Drive Me Crazy
00:30:56 - They Took Our Jobs
00:35:28 - They Gave Us Time Off
00:41:42 - Get Involved
00:42:52 - Introducing
00:43:16 - In Other AI News
00:48:33 - Thanks For The Memos
00:51:27 - Show Me the Money
00:53:54 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
00:54:45 - Quickly, There’s No Time
00:55:28 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
00:57:59 - Our Offer Is Nothing
01:03:12 - The Week in Audio
01:03:30 - Rhetorical Innovation
01:09:50 - Political Violence Is Never The Answer
01:13:23 - A Lot Of People Peacefully Speak Of Infinitely High Stakes
01:15:01 - Take a Moment
01:19:08 - Greetings From The Department of War
01:24:34 - Political Pressure At Google DeepMind
01:25:10 - Things That Are Basically Legal And Accepted Now, Somehow
01:26:12 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
01:32:11 - Aligning a Current Model For Mundane Tasks Is Also Difficult
01:33:29 - Everyone Is Confused About AI Consciousness
01:36:30 - The Lighter Side
