Rational Security: The "Are You There, Nena? It's Me, NORAD" Edition
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined once again by host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's various freak-outs, including:
- “We Found the 100th Luftballon.” Last week, a Chinese spy balloon floated over the United States, triggering a national freak-out that led to the cancellation of a major high-level summit between U.S. and Chinese leaders. Was this freak-out warranted? What does it tell us about U.S.-China relations?
- “SotFU.” President Biden delivered his second State of the Union address last night—and it was about as contentious as expected. How did he do? And how should we feel about this most vaunted of national institutions?
- “ChatOMG.” Over the past several weeks, countless Americans have had the chance to hash it out with ChatGPT, a large language-model artificial intelligence that is open to the public and will either revolutionize or devastate a thousand different human tasks, depending on who you ask. Just how revolutionary is ChatGPT? And is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:14.7 | That's patreon.com slash LawFair. |
| 0:18.2 | Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair |
| 0:25.6 | or no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm John Emmins, intern at LawFair with an episode of rational security for February 12, |
| 0:41.3 | 2023. |
| 0:42.6 | For today's episode, the team at LawFair decided to cross-post this week's episode of |
| 0:46.2 | rational security, a podcast hosted by Scott R. Anderson, Quintet Jurassic, and Alan Rosenstein |
| 0:52.1 | in which they cover the week's big national security news stories. |
| 0:55.1 | Today's episode is entitled Rational Security 2.0. |
| 0:58.2 | The Nina are you there? |
| 0:59.8 | It's me, norad addition. |
| 1:02.0 | In this week's episode, Anderson, Jurassic and Rosenstein were joined by Benjamin Wittis |
| 1:05.8 | to discuss the week's national security free cats, including the Chinese Bible incident, |
| 1:10.1 | the president stated the union address, chat GBT and more. |
| 1:14.0 | This is rational security. |
| 1:18.0 | Alan, you are looking high and tight, my friend. |
| 1:20.6 | There's a crisp and new dude. |
| 1:23.2 | I got my one-severated hair cut. |
| 1:27.8 | Can I just say I have a hair cut tip for everyone out there? |
| 1:31.3 | For years, I would try to explain to barbers like how I wanted my hair cut. |
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