322: Simulated Intelligence

We discuss political and moral tribalism, the moral limitations of institutional power, order, freedom and the elections.

It's been a few weeks since your hosts have recorded together, so we hit a range of topics from elections, foreign policy, political philosophy and domestic disturbance.

Michael asks a bunch of questions about the legal system with Shane Taylor of Shane A. Taylor & Associates.

We discuss capital punishment, jury trials and more AI.

We spend the bulk of our time discussing the end of July OpenAI agent attack on Hugging Face.

We spend this episode at the intersection of government, technology, independence and parenting.

We talk about the big anniversary, patriotism, voter bribes and data centers.

We discuss the court case of the day.

We talk about state education, FLOCK hubris and economic D-Day.

Do we want to be a great nation or a good nation? The two are not mutually exclusive, but we discuss which direction we feel the US should lean. Also, banks suck, and what does the "W" stand for anyway?