00:00:00Supplementary Material 56 MF
00:01:58The Hugging Face Fiasco
00:08:46AI Dangers are real
00:15:49AI Discourse
00:22:29Beware Self Serving PR
00:25:04The Geeky Context
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Chris and Matt grapple with Face Huggers, ponder the mysteries of algebra, and have a heated exchange over the term "bespoke".
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Supplementary Material 56
00:00 Introduction
01:58 The Hugging Face incident
08:46 AI risks and AI discourse
22:29 OpenAI’s presentation and the incentives around AI safety
29:51 How worried should we be?
40:13 Disagreeing about AI
46:15 Peter Boghossian’s AI-generated utopia and dystopia
52:00 Matt’s favourite DJ meme
53:32 Tucker Carlson meets algebra
1:00:18 Andrew Callaghan and Channel 5
1:02:07 Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP meme coin
1:06:08 A brief intervention on “paleocon”
1:13:41 Andrew Callaghan explains the email-list mistake
1:23:46 Andrew Callaghan on tech oligarchs
1:36:28 Taylor Lorenz’s political independence
1:42:35 The Great Bespoke Debate of 2026
1:56:35 Hasan, Mearsheimer, and Russia
2:07:16 Peace is restored
Links
- Hugging Face: July 2026 security incident disclosure
- Hugging Face: Technical timeline of the agent intrusion
- OpenAI: The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
- OpenAI: Hugging Face incident technical report (PDF)
- OpenAI: Black Hat USA 2026 talk on the Hugging Face incident
- METR and Redwood Research: Independent investigation of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident
- Mind Enterprises: Balcony MIXTAPE, the original DJ video
- Matt’s preferred version of the balcony meme, with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei
- Tucker Carlson with Jess Elofson: The Forgotten Lessons of Human History and the Dark Forces Robbing You of Your God-Given Creativity
- Channel 5: Hunter Biden Interview
- Channel 5: Nick Fuentes Interview, featuring Hunter Biden
- Hunter Biden’s video response to the $LAPTOP launch
- Channel 5: Andrew Callaghan addresses the Hunter Biden crypto coin
- Channel 5: Andrew Callaghan’s September 10 explanation on X
- Channel 5: Andrew Callaghan’s September 15 “State of the Union” monologue
- Jubilee: 1 Journalist vs 20 Conspiracy Theorists, with Andrew Callaghan
- MTS: The Panic and Fear around AI, with Taylor Lorenz
- John Mearsheimer: The Russia I Saw
- Hasan Piker reacts to Mearsheimer’s Russia visit (from 5:24:30)
- Blake Lemoine discusses his claim that Google’s LaMDA was sentient and his identity as a mystic Christian priest
- The Free Press: Two Drinks with Taylor Lorenz
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