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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.3 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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“I do not like the idea of pointing these giant AI supercomputers at people's dopamine receptors and just feeding them an endless diet of hyper-personalized stimulating videos.”

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0:00.0	Here at the Hard Fork Show, we're big sleep maxers.
0:04.3	We're always trying to improve our sleep.
0:06.4	Yeah.
0:06.9	Because, you know, podcasting is a sport, and you have to remain in peak physical condition
0:11.2	if you want to perform at the highest levels.
0:13.1	And so I noticed a story in The Verge this week that said eight sleep, which makes the bed
0:19.6	that I happen to sleep in.
0:20.7	It's one of these beds that
0:22.5	you know, sort of automatically cools and heats according to your preferences and can raise
0:26.7	and lower to stop you from snoring. Wow, flex. They have a new water chilled pillow cover,
0:32.7	Kevin. Wow. And I wanted to ask if you could guess how much it costs.
0:38.7	$100.
0:39.9	That would be a really great and fair price for a water-chilled pillow cover.
0:44.5	The actual cost is $1,049.
0:47.7	Come on.
0:48.9	And I want to be clear, it doesn't come with the pillow.
0:53.0	You've to supply your own pillow. It's BYOP for the eight sleeve water chilled pillow cover. Wow. So obviously I sent this to my boyfriend, and I was like, what are we thinking about this? And he said, honestly, I think my pillow experience is already fine. And I thought, thank God. Have you heard about these new corduroy pillows they're selling?
1:11.8	No, I haven't.
1:13.0	Are they from the 70s?
1:14.7	No, but they're making headlines.
1:24.2	I'm Kevin Roos, a tech columnist at the New York Times.
1:25.7	I'm Casey Dunn from Platformer.
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