David Chen
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This Week Online: Trump Indicted, AI Open Letter, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
🕑 Added 2023-03-31 22:25:38 +0000 UTCIn this week's bonus audio, I talk about what's going on in my life, what's going on in the world, and what's going in the world of movies. Enjoy! Timestamps below.
0:58 - David Chen podcast empire check-in
4:57 - Trump Indicted (Peter Baker's piece)
15:23 - AI Open Letter (It's a Mess)
20:00 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (no spoilers)
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Comments
David Chen
Love this, thank you for sharing!
CDMatthew
P. S. to my above comment: I still detest Musk, just to be clear.
CDMatthew
Hi Dave. I was interested to hear your take on the AI Open Letter. For me it brought to mind the writing and work of Neil Postman, and I wonder if you’ve read him. He has a wonderful little talk (from 1998!!) that I’ll link below, but here are a couple excerpts: “…for every advantage a new technology offers, there is always a corresponding disadvantage. The disadvantage may exceed in importance the advantage, or the advantage may well be worth the cost. Now, this may seem to be a rather obvious idea, but you would be surprised at how many people believe that new technologies are unmixed blessings.” And this: “… the best way I can express this idea is to say that the question, ‘What will a new technology do?’ is no more important than the question, ‘What will a new technology undo?’ Indeed, the latter question is more important, precisely because it is asked so infrequently.” Anyway, here’s a link to his prescient, witty yet sobering speech FIVE THINGS WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, I think you’ll enjoy it: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/postman.pdf
