Social Media In Wartime + Betting on the Future + A.I. Passes the Smell Test

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

As the Israel-Hamas war broke out, misinformation and fake imagery surged on X, the platform formerly known at Twitter. Can Meta’s Threads fill the real-time news hole that X created? Should it? Then, Kevin debriefs us on his reporting on Manifold Markets, where Silicon Valley Rationalists bet on the likelihoods of different events. Plus: The company digitizing smell.

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0:00.0	So, Casey, I get a lot of deranged and unintelligible texts from you.
0:05.7	You're welcome.
0:06.7	Thanks.
0:07.7	And even by those standards, the one that I got from you last night while I was sitting
0:12.6	down for dinner was pretty wild.
0:15.6	So this was a text that contained a link to something called Bunk, and your text said
0:23.8	the following.
0:24.8	Bunk me on Bunk.
0:26.6	My handle is Casey Newton.
0:28.0	That's right.
0:29.0	Casey, why are you asking me to Bunk you and do you know that I'm happily married?
0:35.4	I did hear that.
0:36.4	Although I was told there was an AI with different ideas, but Bunk is the app that everyone
0:43.4	in Silicon Valley is talking about and by everyone, I mean, a few of my fans who showed
0:47.0	it to me.
0:48.0	What is this?
0:49.0	Okay.
0:50.0	It's the best.
0:51.0	So do you remember the app yo from back in the day?
0:52.5	Yes.
0:53.5	There was an app like 10 years ago that did only one thing.
0:55.6	You could like push a button and it would tell, it would like say yo to someone.
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