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After a hiatus, we revived the freewheeling radio-style
It’s Late Night Somewhere to continue celebrating TAP‘s three year anniversary.
This was the first two It’s Late Night Somewhere streams that evening…
Approximate Time Marks for Discussion Topics:
10:00
Starts
14:10
Karl enters.
Possible Bitcoin founder retweeting white positive content creators.
Leadership, changes in the status/perception of the rich.
24:00
Pros and cons of Elon Musk.
Bitcoin, connections to electricity prices.
Microchipping.
39:00
Artificial intelligence, robotics.
How it can affect society, connection to immigration.
Deep fakes.
“Parallel elite” class to current elites.
1:04:00
New tech making alternative entertainment media production much easier.
Ways media trains its audiences.
1:12:00
Jeff Winston joins.
“Inevitability Effect” that media creates
Possible ways to make original independent media,
challenges/questions around that.
Continuing potential of livestreaming,
de-centralized networks working with the more local.
1:37:00
Dark side of technology making creative work easier, lowering standards in modern music.
Technology taking dignity away from people doing their own work.
1:49:00
Effects that movies have on peoples’ expectations for their romantic relationships.
The promise of technology being dampened by the infringement on privacy.
1:59:00
Ecce enters.
Neural Net processors.
Computers mimicking human neural networks.
Generative adversarial networks. (GANs)
In a way this is computers programming themselves–
how this relates to technology behind self-driving cars.
Login CAPTCHA’s actually teach these networks.
2:11:00
Human Programmed vs “self taught” computers playing chess against each other.
More on interfacing with artificial intelligence.
Effects on population, family formation, relationships.
2:27:00
How the spiritual/transcendent relates to all of this?
Rebalancing the mechanistic bent of the 20th century.
How to have some kind of optimism seeing the
debauched and malicious leadership we currently have?
2:44:00
Semiogogue joins.
Challenges the idea that elites will be susceptible to
and usurped by the emerging technologies they themselves developed.
Bitcoin trap? “Getting everyone onto the network?”
3:12:00
CRISPR, IQ, investment risk
~Guest Links~
Karl Thorburn:
Jeff Winston:
Semiogogue:
Ecce Lux: