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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:00:57 - Table of Contents

* 00:04:37 - Still Only Partial Cure For Cancer

* 00:07:59 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:09:46 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:11:43 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:17:29 - Levels of Friction

* 00:18:27 - Choose Your Fighter

* 00:19:15 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:21:09 - Greetings From The Torment Nexus

* 00:24:51 - Levels of Friction

* 00:27:54 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:31:44 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:32:45 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:36:23 - Get Involved

* 00:41:51 - Conditional Support For A Pause

* 00:45:58 - In Other AI News

* 00:49:48 - Show Me the Money

* 00:50:32 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:52:15 - This Means Special Military Operation

* 00:52:33 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:53:27 - Quickly, There’s No Time

* 00:55:36 - And Then There’s Emil Michael

* 01:00:59 - Good Advice

* 01:01:59 - Patriots and Tyrants

* 01:07:57 - The Quest for Survival

* 01:13:25 - Nashville Rules

* 01:15:10 - People Really Hate AI

* 01:24:01 - The OpenAI-a16z Anti-All-AI-Regulation Super PAC

* 01:28:38 - Chip City

* 01:32:20 - The Week in Audio

* 01:34:12 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:39:32 - Instrumental Convergence

* 01:41:04 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:47:43 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:49:00 - The Lighter Side

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AI #160: What Passes For a Pause