Cal Newport
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42 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2025
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Models increasingly just like some vague notion of a model is evading our control and improving.
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And so it's it's it's very vague.
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It's very vague because it tends to be in the vernacular of rationalism and effective altruism, which uh have a a relatively non-technical often engagement with these issues.
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So they speak in terms of like thought experiments or high-level concepts.
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So we need to really understand what's going on.
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What AI is threatening humanity?
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What specific
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system are you working on now that you think will do that?
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Why are you working on it?
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Is there no way to stop why can't you stop that?
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What like we need to get more concrete about what exactly they're saying.
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We also need to then counterbalance everything that comes out of uh the the figures that I identified in in uh my New Yorker article or my New York Times op-ed rather.
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From a few weeks ago.
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identified, you know, Altman, Amade, Musk, Dimas Assabi, among others, has been particularly connected to these futurist ideologies like rationalism and effective altruism and is really influencing the way their companies think and talk.
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as we saw when employees of Anthropic, for example, started tweeting in exactly the vernacular of rationalism and effective altruism.
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So we need to counterbalance all those explanations with explanations from other highly advanced AI companies that aren't uh as connected.
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to those same ideologies and make sure that we balance those two things off of each other.
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We want to hear you out, but we want to hear what the other guy
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has to say as well.
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