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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
