Neal Freiman
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14,692 appearances
180 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 11 Jun
Neal Freiman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the effects of AI, Ray Kurzweil, the singularity is near, and the making of the atomic bomb.
So Luna said the tension is very much intentional.
What makes the story a little paradoxical, and I think interesting, is that the concept is slow life.
All right, let's talk big picture here.
What is the point of this?
Yes, maybe it's a little bit of a marketing stunt, et cetera, et cetera.
But the founders of Anden Labs, Axel Backlund and Lucas Peterson, say we want to show people what AI is capable
capable of.
We just want to provide information.
We want to stress test AI in real-world environments.
We don't really have an opinion on whether AI should be running companies like many tech companies' CEOs say they want, or if that's a negative or a positive.
We just want to put the information out there.
see what happens, run these experiments, it's not gonna hurt anybody, and maybe it'll even employ two people, which it did.
Okay, let's sprint to the finish with some final headlines.
Not even the makers of condoms are protected from the Iran war.
Carex, the planet's biggest condom manufacturer based out of Malaysia, producing one out of every five condoms worldwide,
told Bloomberg it's planning to raise prices by as much as 30% as a result of the war's supply chain hit.
Many of the raw materials that go into condoms are derived from oil, like the ammonia used to preserve latex or the silicone oil that lubricates them.
And those materials are being held up by the Strait of Hormuz, leading to potential shortages and raising production costs by over 25%.
Toby, this is a prime example of how the war is impacting supply chains for all kinds of things, and also how oil is suffused into everything you buy.
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