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Today we're talking with my friend Byron Reese.

Byron is an entrepreneur but more importantly he's a really brilliant thinker who

has been to North Korea way more times than pretty much anybody I know

including myself. He's kind of the the human embodiment of a book of

random interesting facts right so at a book of you know factoids isn't the right word but just

super interesting maybe maybe snappleish facts come to life but we do a bit of a

deeper dive in it that might be selling it a little short sorry Byron today in

addition to North Korea will explore human and animal

communication and the origins of human language and communication as well. We'll also connect language

to advance thought processes and something called Theory of Mind, which has implications not only for animals and of course for humans, but even for artificial intelligence.

Speaking of which, we fade into this conversation on the subject of AI and jobs just because we hit record while we were

rapping before the show and well we'll just fade into this show the same way.

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