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TRUE ANON TRUTH FEED

Episode 368: High Weirding (Part 2)

TRUE ANON TRUTH FEED

TrueAnon

Politics, News

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Erik Davis, scholar of the weird and esoteric, joins us for part two of a long conversation about the legacy of Philip K. Dick, Silicon Valley technopolypse, the future of California, and more from his forthcoming book Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid medium.

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0:00.0

Picture this, Liz.

0:03.1

You're 23 years old.

0:05.6

You've graduated from MIT with a BA in CS.

0:11.8

Is that real?

0:12.5

Computer science?

0:13.4

I think you'd have a BS.

0:14.6

Yeah.

0:14.9

You have a BS in CS.

0:17.3

That kind of feels like I'm trying to do like a funger little thing there, but apparently

0:20.5

that's what they call it. I love what you're looking at me, but I know this is what they call it. A BS and CS. There you go. You graduated. Fresh. You fly across the country, San Francisco. I got a job interview here. I got a job interview there. I'm going to south of motherfucking market. I'm talking, hello Mr. Jack Dorsey. Hire me here at Stripe. Hello, Mr. Elon Musk. Perhaps I can work at X, formerly known as Twitter. You get the job. You move to Cerebral Valley, otherwise known as Hayes Valley. Wait, do they call it that?

0:54.3

They do be calling it that.

0:55.3

Because of AI.

1:08.9

They're trying to call it. Wait, what? I didn't know that. When did this happen? Like last year. Last year. That's so bad. I didn't want to tell you until now. I didn't want to. Wait, that's so bad. You were keeping that for me? I just, well, look how you're reacting. I didn't want to, you know, I didn't want to upset your unbalance your humors.

1:15.5

Film very time.

1:16.6

But now you live there.

1:18.7

Things are going great.

1:20.0

You're getting paid $800,000 a year.

1:22.9

You're working on CS style problems at work.

1:27.5

AI, the future.

1:29.9

I love it here in San Francisco.

1:32.3

DoorDash.

1:34.4

Uber Eats.

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