933 - We Can Grok It For You Wholesale feat. Mike Isaac (5/12/25)

love hank, but this was a huge missed opportunity to outro with Zapp’s “Computer Love” (1985)

Bean Blackett

Listening to this ep while I do a mandatory work training on AI :)

Micheline

As for the riddles to get into a tech company, usually for big faang companies it's three technical interviews, some of them in which you do solve problems that have no bearing on what you actually do in your day to day. The riddles are dumb as hell and you have only an hour - some of these are hard enough problems that you get an week to solve them in college algorithms courses.

Chloe Interferometry

Will is right about nationalizing the whole thing. This is something Marx talked about, nationalizing the monopolies when they become monopolies.

Alex

15,000 people chanting‘Die! Die! Die! Die! during Creeping Death at any Metallica show loud enough to make a hockey arena resonate and the stands shake will never be duplicated sitting at home with a VR mask on, or whatever. Whether you had a friend or fifteen with you or you went by yourself. And moshed solo. My man’s right.

M Varnzo

Because all this “emerging technology” sucks absolute shit

Seymour Butz

Easily. They call upon their New York City socialite friends who serve coffee during the day and write articles by nights on shit they know nothing about.

protob1

protob1

I believe the chat bot was ELIZA. The Adam Curtis documentary is HuperNormalisation, which is a must watch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA https://youtu.be/to72IJzQT5k?si=b_WyjMcZ1c1Osvxj

Vladak

Would anyone happen to know any details that might help me find the study Will mentioned at around 1:30?

LividEllen

How do they get these people who know nothing as experts on this topic.

David Butler

on nationalisation, if you have questions about how publicly owned communications monopolies can still be part of a global network I would point you at the world's post offices and the universal postal union that binds them togeather.

Maggie+Al

I have a bit flipped on my yt shorts algorithm where it just shows me 0 view videos every once in a while and this most recent one has kind of sat with me. Some high grade ai slop using fantastical conspiricism to sell tshirts. https://youtube.com/shorts/fJJ7YkRW0-U?si=cwW2Tx6Y2O6kLFzO

Mark Dudley