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The AI Boys Hug It Out, The Doomers Want It Banned | PW Pod w/ Mike Solana & Liv Boeree

Mike Solana and Riley Nork talk with Liv Boeree about Bernie's AI bill, why she will not name a P-doom, and why people hate data centers. Kat Rosenfield joins them on the Cornell 7 lawsuit, and the show closes on America.gov.

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  1. What Did Pirate Wires Say Trump's Superintelligence Rename Did? at 2:49

    On Pirate Wires, Mike Solana and Liv Boeree open on a week of superintelligence news. Full answer

  2. What Would Bernie's Bill Pause Right Now? at 8:12

    Looking at the document, the Bernie thing seems to say that the thing that should be paused right now is only frontier development. Full answer

  3. Why Is a Single P-doom Number Refused? at 11:20

    A single probability is refused because the topic is far too complex to collapse down to a single probability. Full answer

  4. Why Did Vanity Fair Bring an Activist to the Party? at 32:26

    Vanity Fair published a story called The Slow Motion Car Crash at Data After Dark. Full answer

  5. How Does Data-center Water Use Compare With Golf Courses in America? at 41:09

    Data centers use only 3% of the water that golf courses in America use. Data centers serve hundreds of millions of people. Full answer

  6. Why Is the Reaction to Data Centers Really About a Machine Extracting People's Lives? at 42:25

    The overreaction treats data centers as the physical manifestation of a digital world people feel is bad for them. Full answer

  7. Why Call Data Centers Supercomputers Now? at 43:33

    A data center is not strictly what they are. Nowadays, what we're trying to build is supercomputers, so let's actually just call those that. Full answer

  8. What Is Cornell's Chi Phi Lawsuit Alleging? at 49:15

    A woman who was allegedly taken advantage of while intoxicated filed a new civil lawsuit claiming that after consuming ketamine and alcohol, seven members of… Full answer

  9. What Is America.gov for? at 1:11:09

    America.gov is a new AI-powered website unveiled by the Trump administration to help us all simplify the headache of dealing with government bureaucracy. Full answer

  10. What Does Seeing Like a State Say a State Wants? at 1:19:58

    Seeing Like a State is a way to envision why states behave like they do. What a state wants is maximum transparency. Full answer

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