Podcast: Age of Empires II sentience argument, Texas park land sold for data center, and MSG hack
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Joseph Cox
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This podcast episode covers three main stories: 1) A paper arguing that if LLMs are considered sentient, then by the same metrics the classic game Age of Empires II would also qualify as sentient. 2) A controversial situation in Texas where land donated for a park was sold to build a data center. 3) In the subscribers-only section, discussion about hacking and basketball related to the Madison Square Garden hack.
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· 3 pulledWe start this week with Matthew's story about a fascinating paper that argues if LLMs are sentient, then by those metrics so is the classic game Age of Empires II.
After the break, Matthew tells us about a wild story out of Texas with a data center being built on land that was donated to be a park.
In the subscribers-only section, we talk hacking and basketball.
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