Podcast: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is 'Age of Empires II'
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· Jun 24, 2026 at 9:03 AM
A surreal but compelling LLM experiment with Age of Empires II; how a Texas city sold land meant for a park to a data center company; and the Madison Square Garden hack.
We start this week with Matthew’s story about a fascinating paper that argues if LLMs are sentient, then by those metrics so is the classic game Age of Empires II. After the break, Matthew tells us about a wild story out of Texas with a data center being built on land that was donated to be a park. In the subscribers-only section, we talk hacking and basketball.
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- If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
- A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
- Hackers Publish Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online
- Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
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