ChatGPT Versus Taylor Swift (Earthling Unplugged)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Robert Wright and Andrew Day discuss items from the Earthling.

1:10 Where’s Mickey? 5:28 Why ChatGPT is the real person of the year 21:09 The New York Times sues OpenAI 34:08 Bob’s bitter vindication on Russia-Ukraine 43:40 Israel threatens a wider war 48:53 Efforts to remove Trump from the ballot 1:00:41 2024 predictions

Read this edition of the Earthling at: https://nonzero.substack.com/p/nzns-person-of-the-year

Recorded December 28, 2023.

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0:00.0	Your Listen.
0:03.0	Your listening You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:31.6	Hello, Andrew.
0:35.6	Hey, Bob. How are you doing?
0:38.0	I'm doing okay. I'm a little bleary-eyed. Hey, Bob. How are you doing? I'm doing okay.
0:39.6	I'm a little bleary-eyed.
0:42.1	I was up late going down the JFK assassination rabbit hole.
0:47.1	Oh, you're still on that.
0:48.5	Oh, man.
0:49.1	We're hoping it'll culminate this afternoon when I tape a podcast with Jefferson
0:53.7	Morley noted authority on
0:55.3	this subject and that will air a few days after this one. We may get back to this. I find I find it hard
1:02.3	to not talk about it. Once you're in the rabbit hole, it's all consuming. Yeah, I imagine. I didn't know
1:07.7	you were taping that today. That's cool. I'll watch that. I'm kind of in lieu of our usual opening chit-chat. I have a visual icebreaker. Do you know who this is?
1:17.9	No, I don't. It looks like a white male of the kind who is a member of the patriarchy.
1:24.6	He is a patriarchy. He looks like he should be deposed. When the revolution comes, I want him to bite the dust, but who is he? I'll give you a hand. It's a congressman. You've seen the picture before. This is Steve Scalise. Can you guess why? Did Mickey show me that picture once? Exactly. That's why I'm showing it. See, this is what happens when you get to be my age. It's like they keep showing you Steve Scalise and you're like, who is that?
1:49.2	Well, don't worry. It wasn't recent. Actually, it was a year ago. That's why I'm showing it now. This is the picture that Mickey Cowell showed you at your year-end extravaganza last year. The reason he showed it is because he confidently predicted that Scalise was going to be named Speaker of the House. And, you know, Mickey Kouse is a very astute
2:02.0	political observer, but that prediction didn't quite bear out. It almost did. It could have done,
2:06.2	but it did not. So one reason I wanted to show you this is just to remind us to possibly do some predictions.
2:11.7	I'd like to hear some of your predictions for the new year.
2:18.1	But the main reason was just to kind of draw attention to the fact that Mickey is not here for this year end edition in 2023.
2:20.7	So just I wanted to ask, where is Mickey?
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