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*PREVIEW* Nick Land Acknowledgement feat. Ed Zitron

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Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s bonus, we’re joined by friend of the show and astute tech commentator Ed Zitron to discuss the recent CrowdStrike update debacle, the resulting infinity blue screens, the fact that this doesn’t seem to have an impact on Wall Street’s assessments of these kinds of companies, and the Marc Andreessen / Nick Land handshake on the topic of banning…corporate risk management? For being ‘woke?’ Check out Where’s Your Ed At here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109188620 KJB LIVE ALERT Kill James Bond are doing three nights at Conway Hall in Central London on 9th, 10th, and 11th August, and there’s also livestream tickets available if you can’t make it! Details are available here: https://www.killjamesbond.com/live MILO ALERT  Milo’s special ‘Voicemail’ is premiering on YouTube on July 10th - check it out here:https://youtu.be/x4oTP3M6ppo Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's a great natural experiment you can do about the usefulness of AI is you can say to a computer programmer or survey computer programmers in general and so on and say, hey, has computer programming gone 10 times faster in the last year?

0:12.7

Has it been 10x? Has it? No, it has not. It has not been 10xed. It is not gone faster. We are limited by other factors at best, even if it is making

0:22.3

programming faster. The thing has not happened. The natural experiment happened. We've done

0:27.6

it already. Generative AI has been widely accessible for a long time. And what happened with it?

0:32.4

Klarna fired all their customer service staff. Yeah. And I made like three shitposts.

0:40.3

I got a picture of Garfield with a gun. So, I mean, burning the rainforest is good.

0:42.3

Yeah, I made an image of an Excel bully wearing a kaffia and a poppy waving a trans flag in front of the Santa Saf.

0:47.3

That was kind of worth it, maybe.

0:49.3

Maybe it is worth it then.

0:50.3

The end point is really just like overproduction of pregnant sonic, right?

0:54.7

That's when you've reached like unified intelligence.

0:56.9

This is like the most perfect.

0:58.3

The impreg revolution.

0:59.7

The most perfect pregnant sonic.

1:01.8

Finally, Chris Chan has been automated.

1:04.6

No, I want to go, I want to go back.

1:07.7

Don't we all?

1:08.6

I want to go back to saying hello again to the bitcoins.

1:12.1

So Trump says, will the legends please stand up?

1:15.6

Oh, everyone's standing anyway.

1:17.0

That's nice.

1:17.5

I used to say sit down, but it's nice when they stand, including Tyler and Cameron.

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