

They Grade Their Own Homework
Right Now Hot Takes by Jim Rand
S1 Β· E46
Sep 16, 2026
07:29
Episode notes
Anthropic's CEO just asked labs to embed a "watchdog" called METR with employee-like access β a shop spun out of his old OpenAI roommate's circle. Jim Rand walks through Jacob Coxon's 171-million-view resignation, the 10-percent extinction claim, Friedman's who-decides test, and why a 26-year-old should treat a safety badge as a moat until it is actually independent.
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