Why Bezos Silenced The Post | EP 107 - Video

Last week, Jeff Bezos canceled the Washington Post editorial board’s plan to endorse Kamala Harris. Are tech billionaires hedging their bets in case Donald Trump wins? Then, Miles Brundage, a former OpenAI senior adviser on artificial general intelligence readiness, stops by to tell us how his old company is doing when it comes to being ready for superintelligence, and whether we should all keep saving for retirement. And finally, David Yaffe-Bellany, a Times technology reporter, joins us to explore the rise of Polymarket, a crypto-powered betting platform, and discuss whether prediction markets can tell us who is going to win the election.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:27 - Naked Hot Spring
00:02:36 - this week on the show
00:03:26 - Bezos’ Blocks the Post
00:24:51 - former OpenAI senior adviser for A.G.I. readiness
00:50:45 - Illegal Election Betting
01:13:33 - Casey cooks

Guests:
Miles Brundage, former OpenAI senior adviser for A.G.I. readiness.
https://www.milesbrundage.com/


David Yaffe-Bellany, technology reporter for The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-yaffe-bellany#about




Additional Reading:
Jeff Bezos’ view from nowhere
https://www.platformer.news/jeff-bezos-washington-post-endorsement-view-from-nowhere/

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Billions of Ways to Influence an Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/technology/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-election.html




Miles Brundage’s on Why He’s Leaving OpenAI
https://milesbrundage.substack.com/p/why-im-leaving-openai-and-what-im


The Crypto Website Where the Election Odds Swing in Trump’s Favor
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/technology/polymarket-election-betting-crypto-trump.html
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