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🗓️ 17 February 2024
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Robert Wright and Andrew Day discuss items from the Earthling.
Read this edition of the Earthling at: https://nonzero.substack.com/p/sam-altmans-big-bad-idea
Recorded February 16, 2024.
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0:00.0 | Your Listen. |
0:03.0 | Your listening You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
0:33.1 | Hi, Andrew. |
0:34.7 | Hey, Bob. |
0:35.8 | How you doing? |
0:37.6 | I'm doing good, but better than usual, actually, I would say. I'm feeling good. |
0:41.7 | Is there a reason for that? Because you could share the secret with our listeners and viewers, |
0:46.6 | and then they can be happier than they are right now. What is it? What happened? |
0:50.2 | Well, I don't know if this is going to make them happier. And I hate to brag, but my new office does have a view of the sun setting over the Blue Ridge Mountains, which is really nice. So that's putting me in a good mood. That was pretty harsh. You know, most people, including me, don't have that. Don't have any of those things. No, no, you didn't, that was, that was |
1:11.3 | very insensitive of you. I've been to the Blue Ridge Mountains and I used to own Blue Ridge |
1:16.8 | Golf Clubs. I've never heard of Blue Ridge Golf Clubs. Were you at the, you're in North |
1:22.9 | Carolina for the Blue Ridge Mountains? Family reunion years ago. The The name of it was one of these places with all these cabs, like nice kind of newish cabins |
1:34.3 | and they each had a name and the name of ours was linger longer. |
1:39.3 | That's nice, nice alliteration. |
1:41.3 | I think that they're basically the same thing as the Smoky Mountains. |
1:45.4 | They just call them the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, but it's the same like geological formation. |
1:51.0 | Actually, I think technically it extends all the way to Norway. |
1:53.5 | Like the same continuous geological structure goes under the ocean. |
1:58.9 | My friend and teacher John McPhee would know the answer to that question. |
2:04.8 | I'll ask him. |
2:07.1 | So let's see. |
2:08.5 | We should say, I'm Robert Wright. |
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