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Valerie Sizemore

Valerie Sizemore

Co-leader and co-founder of StopAI, a grassroots movement campaigning for a ban on frontier AI development

Jul 30, 2026

Whit MisseldineHOST
10:59
Like a muscle needs to tear to grow, right? And there is a certain level of friction in our way of interacting with the world that actually helps us evolve.
11:07
Friction and boredom.
11:09
Boredom is actually really important for learning.
11:12
An excellent learning technique that is supported by neurological research is to, you know, while you're studying, every, like, ten minutes or so, just, like, stare at a wall.
11:22
Like, literally just don't do anything for, like, a minute or two and be bored, and this will help reinforce the learning.
11:31
Um, this is a related one a- and also one that a lot of people have been showing up to our group concerned about, education.
11:40
It's being pushed into schools, and there's an incentive for students to use it.

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Whit MisseldineHOST
27:03
And so what would that look like in terms of AI when you talk about, just again, for people who, who might not even know Transformer, but just at a high level, what are the mechanisms that, and regulations that would actually have to be in place that would make a meaningful difference?

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