Episode Details

Shawn has more to say about social sharing on the internet. Then we talk about therapy, the paradox of wisdom, the creative process, qualifications for becoming POTUS, codes of ethics, the complete capitulation of SCOTUS and the GOP Congress, the two-party system, the optics of action, ignoring the fine print, MFAs, MBAs, choosing a college major, Bisbee Arizona, the rightward shift of Silicon Valley, AI versus the demand for authenticity and sincerity, UBI, Andrew Yang, what Marx might think about A.I., the oil industry as a way to think about A.I., the success of Mamdani, the deep unpopularity of the Trump Admin and why that’s not actually comforting.

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Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art - Sci Fi author Ted Chiang in The New Yorker