# Research

- [Joe Newman on Raising Lions: conflict as a question, and the break](/joe-newman-raising-lions-breaks)
  — 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.

- [Eric Weinstein on AI, aliens and "managed reality"](/eric-weinstein-doac-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.

- [A stark warning from a former AI doomer](/cal-newport-torres-tescreal)
  — 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.

- [Three camps in the AI harm debate](/cal-newport-three-camps-ai-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.