Ep. 17 | Will We Automate You? | Guests: Joe Leonardo and David Ryan Polgar
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Joe Leonardo and tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar join Heaton to talk about automation, wireless cars, and how turning everything into robots can be awesome and terrifying simultaneously.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton on demand. Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | I'm former president Martin Van Buren and we're gonna have a great program today. I've got two people on. |
| 0:20.0 | I've got two people on. |
| 0:23.4 | I've got a comedian and a tech ethicist, and we're going to talk about automation and |
| 0:27.7 | driverless cars, how that's going to affect society, and how that's going to affect bumper stickers. Before that I'm going to get into a little bit of |
| 0:35.2 | tech news, things that I don't think have been getting adequate coverage in the media that you need |
| 0:38.8 | to know about involving a, well you'll find out. But first, before we get into that, I do need to give a word to our sponsors. |
| 0:47.0 | Something's Off with Andrew Heaton is proudly sponsored by the Carve Reagan's face into the moon using a giant laser foundation. |
| 0:54.1 | A non-profit dedicated to building a colossal high-intensity laser capable of etching the |
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| 1:03.0 | Folks, every non-profit runs into a few hitches when it's first getting started |
| 1:08.0 | and the Carv Reagan's face into the moon using a giant laser foundation has had a couple of |
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| 1:14.0 | First, the Foundation's social media team erroneously referred to Reagan as our 39th president on Facebook |
| 1:19.5 | when of course he's the 40th. They're fresh out of college they've been spoken to. |
| 1:23.0 | Second, the Foundation used its laser to obliterate the city state of San Marino |
| 1:28.0 | as a warning to the Vatican, which the Foundation has been trying to extort for a hundred billion dollars. |
| 1:35.0 | Holding the Vatican hostage, using a giant laser and threatening the Pope with instant heat |
| 1:39.0 | death from space is definitely outside of the Foundation's core mission statement, |
| 1:43.6 | for which the Foundation has issued a heartfelt press release. |
| 1:47.1 | Not only that, the Foundation's President, |
| 1:48.8 | Colonel Harconan Death Fist, has stepped down and is now merely |
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