9 May 2026 02:13
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.
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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
