The "Third Anniversary Hot Take Takedown: Comeuppance" Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott celebrated the third anniversary of Rational Security 2.0 with their Lawfare colleagues Molly Reynolds, Natalie Orpett, and Tyler McBrien, who sat in brutal judgment as the three co-hosts pitched them their hottest takes yet, including:
- Are concerns about judicial ethics overblown?
- Do ethics require that we open the borders and make whoever wants to become one a citizen?
- Should we just treat AI systems like the wild animals they are?
Which takes are undercooked, which too hot, and which are just right? Listen in and decide!
Meanwhile, for object lessons, Scott shared some news about the future of Rational Security moving forward. Listen to the end of the episode to find out what!
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| 0:00.0 | So thanks to Elon Musk's fight with the Brazilian judiciary. Brazilians are no longer able to access |
| 0:07.3 | Twitter without a VPN. |
| 0:08.8 | And my entire blue-scide feed is now in Portuguese as far as I can tell. So, |
| 0:15.0 | bumb dear to you all. |
| 0:17.0 | Is that an upgrade for you, Quinta? How does it feel having your whole thing in Portuguese now? |
| 0:21.0 | Confusing because I can almost read it but not quite. |
| 0:25.0 | So it's like reading Spanish but having a stroke at the same time. |
| 0:30.4 | All our Portuguese listeners will be thrilled to know that. |
| 0:32.4 | Quinta thinks that you sound like Spaniards having... All our Portuguese listeners will be thrilled to know that. |
| 0:32.5 | Quinta thinks that you sound like Spaniards having strokes. |
| 0:35.0 | No, no, no, no, no, that's what it's like for me. |
| 0:38.0 | That's what it's like for me. |
| 0:39.2 | It's like you can almost understand it but not like there's something off, you know? |
| 0:43.5 | So I have a kind of a weird version of that actually also with Portuguese. |
| 0:46.4 | So for reasons I don't understand Portuguese and Russian share a lot of the same phonemes, like a lot of the same |
| 0:51.9 | sounds, especially a lot of the shh sounds, but not because they're linguistic. |
| 0:56.6 | As far as I can tell, I don't think Portuguese, which is a romance language and Russian, which is a Slavic |
| 1:00.3 | language are related in any way. |
| 1:02.4 | But it means that whenever I hear Portuguese, |
| 1:05.0 | which I don't otherwise understand, |
| 1:06.3 | I kind of hallucinate as if I hear like random Russian words |
| 1:09.3 | because I do speak Russian. |
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