124: Kratom’s Basilisk
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Molly and Emily delve into the world of kratom, the Midwest’s favorite legal drug! What is kratom and why are opioid users using it to get off opiods? Molly’s tales of caffeine psychosis. Will Emily try kratom for the pod? The outlook is good! For the second half we are joined by Tess and special guest tech journalist Nitasha Tiku to talk about unfriendly AI, the singularity, the paperclip experiment, the dark enlightenment and more! Why racist workplace culture thrives in Silicon Valley, and how employees get punished for calling it out. Are the promised imminent human linked neural networks just gonna be more vaporware? Who is Roko and what is their basilisk? Bad machine learning, racism at Pinterest, and other algorithmic fables about the limits of rationalism, on a new Night Call!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | It's 11.m. in a box full of ones and zeros on planet Mars. |
| 0:10.1 | And you're listening to Nightcall. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Nightcall, a college show about our dystopian reality. |
| 0:24.2 | My name is Emily Oshita, and with me on the other line is... |
| 0:27.9 | Molly Lambert, and we will be joined in the second half of the show by our special guest, Natasha Tiku, |
| 0:34.0 | and also Tess will be jumping in then. |
| 0:37.3 | But for now, it's just me and Emily. |
| 0:40.4 | It's just us and our new show, our new segment, Chattenkratum. |
| 0:50.3 | I, this is my own night call. |
| 0:53.7 | I actually considered doing a night call about this when I was |
| 0:57.3 | going out, traveling east, from Los Angeles, because basically as soon as I got into the |
| 1:04.2 | south, kind of parts of Texas as well, I just noticed that cratum was everywhere, kind of with the ubiquity that CBD is in, you know, |
| 1:15.1 | well, just about everywhere now too, but definitely in California. |
| 1:20.1 | And I vaguely knew what it was, but I was sort of like, why is there so much here? |
| 1:28.9 | Why does this feel like something that exists like kind of outside of the coastal norms? Like you don't see cradham necessarily |
| 1:37.6 | in your smoke shops and your head shops in California. And I don't know that that's because |
| 1:42.5 | it's... We got cratum. It's. Yeah, it's legal. It's there. |
| 1:46.1 | It's just not pushed. It's not, it's not everywhere. But I've definitely seen it in the Hollywood |
| 1:52.6 | Boulevard smoke shops. There are some big signs that say like, we have cratum. Yeah. Can you tell |
| 1:58.0 | me what cradum is? Well, I mean, I was actually thinking I should guinea pig and do it myself and report back, but I haven't gotten there yet. |
| 2:06.5 | But it was moved to the top of my awareness again because my friend that I'm staying with here does use it. |
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