Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Bob basks in Princeton glory. Mickey must like Bob’s AI take because he claims to have thought of it first. Does AI have the will to power? How much smarter is GPT 4 than GPT 3.5? A lot! Bob sees the good in TikTok. SBF’s patriarchal polycule. The Metaverse is full of poop. Mickey’s loathing of Zuckerberg waxes while Bob’s wanes. Mickey has a scene for Aaron Sorkin’s never-to-be-made John Edwards movie. Was Jim Gordon such a great drummer? Stevie Wonder was. The Summer of Soul. PBS’s sanitized history of hip-hop. Bob in Mobland. How disabled are the senators on the disabled list? How ChatGPT can take over Congress. Beer track, schmeer track—any number of Democrats could beat Trump. Brush With Greatness, Sorvino edition. When Bruce Willis missed the nuances of Bob’s book. Have they found a cause of Parkinson’s? Why James Watson hates Bob. Why Bob’s Honda is safer than a Tesla. The passion of Douglas McGregor. Is autism an epithet? Mickey scoffs at latest zoonotic evidence. Bob and Mickey vow to watch the movie of the hour.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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