The Skeptics Guide #1105 - Sep 12 2026

“TIMESTAMPS [0:36] Special Guest Christian Hubicki [1:57] Updating the Matrix [18:50] Special Guest Julie Novella [42:12] Sponsor - Quince [43:13] News Item #1 - Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope [52:46] News Item #2 - Training Robot Babies…”

“Another great show, Christian and Julie were amazing guest! I think the best sci-fi tech for real life would be replicators. Just straight up unlimited everything. I'd be interested to see how humans could ruin that. I'm sure we would. The…”

“Thus far, SGU has not demonstrated any understanding the magnitude of resources required by RL and model creation by vendors of “AI”. Nor have they cared to the math of an LLM, what a LLM is good for, and so on. The lack of wholistic skepti…”

“The quote is provocative only in the sense that is generated by AI and that kinda makes me mad. It's just a paraphrasing of ideas that have been on the internet for a while (go figure, that's what llms do). There are a lot of technologies t…”