Show Notes
Welcome back to the pod! This week, Pirate Wires reported on the State Department's fight against censorship abroad. At the same time, French President, Emmanuel Macron, took the stage to denounce America's version of free speech. Sanjana Friedman joins us to discuss free speech maximalism and how Europe's model of speech is seeping into how American's view speech. Also in today's episode, an AI doomer battle! Steven Pinker & Scott Alexander go at it over our favorite discourse.. the AI apocalypse. Should our p(doom) continue to rise? or are we actually looking at the greatest leap in human lifespan? We're then joined by PW write, Nicole Wizman, to discuss California in disarray, and we close the episode debating aliens and Fermi's Paradox (or the newly created.. Solana's Paradox)
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Featuring: Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Sanjana Friedman, Nicole Wizman
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Welcome Back To The Pod! 1:45 - Free Speech Wars between America & Macron 4:45 - What Defines Freedom 12:40 - Macron’s Wife Controversy 18:00 - France Riots 22:50 - THANK YOU MONACO 23:30 - AI Doomer Battle Between Steven Pinker & Scott Alexander 53:55 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT 54:35 - California In Disarray 1:13:00 - Aliens! Debating Fermi’s Paradox 1:33:20 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP 1:34:15 - Wrapping Up
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