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0:00 Holly’s newsletter and her work with PauseAI
3:21 The state of AI safety
10:30 Why Holly started PauseAI US
14:31 Is AI acceleration… accelerating?
23:23 What rationalists got wrong about the singularity
29:19 Mechanize Inc. and the danger of AI safety sellouts
39:46 Holly: Here’s why AI should alarm you
48:01 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Holly Elmore (PauseAI US). Recorded April 29, 2025.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 GPT-4o sycophancy, e/acc zealotry
6:05 Why are the cool kids sneering at international cooperation?
28:33 The road(s) to AI takeover
36:37 What’s really behind big tech’s China hawkism?
41:15 The Dwarkesh question
