Afroman's Revenge, AI Shutdown?, Jazz Jennings, & Norm Macdonald | The Simpleton Podcast

The Simpleton Podcast | Catholic Culture, Mission, and Politics with Clark Massey and Laura Hehman

Clark and Laura discuss Afroman's insane legal battle (and how to effectively embarrass the police), the moratorium on AI, and more on this episode of The Simpleton Podcast.

Also in this episode:

• Why is Clark in a cast and sling?

• Can we make AI safe?; The lockdown on AI

• What does AGI and "alignment" mean?

• Jazz Jennings, "I am Jazz", and understanding transgender transitions

• Norm Macdonald and the Christian idea of self-knowledge

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NOTE:

Below are the links for the statistics and studies that Clark and Laura mention. One slight clarification: in the podcast, it is stated that when comparing the mental health profiles of TIY (transgender-identifying youth) and non-TIY, the statistics of s*icidal behavior are "the same". The line from the second article below provides clarification: "[when comparing the mental health profiles of TIY and non-TIY,] the disparities in s*icidal behavior reduced considerably, suggesting that it is not the lack of gender affirmation that seems to be driving s*icidal behavior." Key emphasis on "disparities" and "reduced considerably", as opposed to "[are] the same".

Links:

Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/

Pediatric Gender Medicine and the Moral Panic Over Suicide: https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/pediatric-gender-medicine-and-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Chapters:

0:00 Start

0:46 Clark's bionic arm

1:21 *MEDICAL TRIGGER WARNING*

2:01 Recovering from an injury

2:38 *MEDICAL TRIGGER WARNING PT. 2*

3:49 Afroman returns! He's getting SUED for his song?

7:47 Embarrassing and speaking out against the government

10:09 Can we make AI safe?; The moratorium on AI

12:11 WHY AI is so powerful

14:18 What is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?

15:18 AGI's threats (as expressed by AGI's creators) and what is "alignment"?

18:52 Why AGI is hard to control

20:13 Guardrails are needed (pt.1): what are they and where do they go?

20:33 Laura asks Bing AI about itself

21:24 Guardrails are needed (pt.2): "it's a race to the bottom"

24:02 What we can do to protect ourselves

26:17 We need guiding, universal rules for AI

29:33 We need good, well-intentioned people for AI

31:24 AI, transhumanism, eugenics, and human potential

33:49 What does TLC stand for?? (as in, the TLC Channel)

35:14 Jazz Jennings, "I am Jazz", and a story of transgender transition

38:02 Understanding the situation, exploitation, child abuse, e etc.

40:47 The epidemic of transgender transitions

41:42 The complexity of transgenderism, gender dysphoria, body dysmorphic disorder, child abuse

46:08 (SEE NOTE IN DESCRIPTION) S*icide and transgender identifying youth

48:10 The Christian idea of self-knowledge

49:49 How self-knowledge relates to transgenderism (pt. 1)

50:13 Norm Macdonald and the intuition for God

52:11 How self-knowledge relates to transgenderism (pt. 2)

54:37 Outro

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