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Joe Newman on Raising Lions: conflict as a question, and the break
— the Raising Lions author on the Back to Human podcast (1 h 21 m), summarised from the
auto-caption transcript: why “conflict asks a question”, meet / avoid / squash the hand,
benign vs malignant vs impulsive behaviour, the escalating non-judgmental break step by step,
over-medication and why praise backfires. One drug claim corrected; evidence base flagged.
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Eric Weinstein on AI, aliens and “managed reality”
— Eric Weinstein’s 1 h 53 m return to The Diary Of A CEO, summarised topic by topic from the
auto-caption transcript: AI as artificial life, Coasean labour-market rights instead of UBI,
why Altman and Amodei “have to win”, alignment as mitochondria, the UAP “lump under the rug”,
and Iran. A few on-air figures are checked against outside sources.
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A stark warning from a former AI doomer
— Cal Newport’s 1 h 18 m interview with Émile P. Torres on the TESCREAL bundle, summarised
from the auto-caption transcript: why the doomer/accelerationist fight is one movement’s
family quarrel, how “safety” and “human extinction” are redefined in-house, and the claim
that the doomers caused the race they warn about.
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Three camps in the AI harm debate
— Cal Newport’s 28-minute solo explainer from the week before: the doomers (with Anthropic
and OpenAI inside the camp, not opposite it), the accelerationists, the centrists — and why
two of the three asking for regulation mean completely different things by it. Four of his
on-air attributions are corrected against outside sources.