Pre-Chat: The Solution to the Alignment Problem

Mike and Ting talk about friction maxxing and AI emotions. NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for TR-49. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or [email protected] Show Notes: Pre-Chat Can 'friction-maxxing' fix your focus? - BBC Future Butlerian Jihad | Dune Wiki WALL·E (2008) - IMDb Soul (2020) - IMDb The promise and warning of Truth Terminal, the AI bot that secured $50,000 in bitcoin from Marc Andreessen | TechCrunch Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model \ Anthropic "Just give me the f***ing links!"—Cursing disables Google's AI overviews - Ars Technica OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances | Tom's Hardware OpenAI closes Sora video-making app and cancels $1bn Disney deal