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Hello everyone, welcome to the December 2023 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape

podcast. I'm your host Sean Carroll. So I will confess that I thought that maybe we would have

some more anyway questions this month that were instigated by the recent

spicy controversial podcasts that we had.

You know, I did that solo episode on artificial intelligence and

indeed online that got a lot of responses both very very positive and very very

negative and it just reminds me that I'm not built, I'm not cut out for controversy on the

internet, you know, which is weird to me because I love academic controversy I love you know

talking to people who have thoughtful opinions about things but as I mentioned

before it is to those of you who are not in academia or not in the good parts of academia anyway,

there is a difference with how disagreement happens.

You know, academic disagreements can get very heated, very personal, very irrational sometimes.

But for the most part, when you give a talk or you write a paper or whatever,

people can entirely, absolutely strongly disagree, and yet do so in a way that is constructive,

you know, that is offering, here are the reasons for my disagreement etc. That doesn't happen as much on the

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