The Secretive Billionaires Building a Tech Utopia + Casey’s External Brain + HatGPT

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The New York Times

Technology

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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A group of tech titans is gobbling up land north of San Francisco with aspirations to alleviate the Bay Area’s housing crisis, promote innovation, and experiment with new forms of governance. It’s not the first time ultra-wealthy people have tried to build the place of their dreams. Will this time be any different? Then, note-taking apps claim to make us smarter. Usually, they don’t. Casey Newton, a productivity cult member, on how A.I. could change that. Plus, Kevin and Casey play HatGPT.

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0:00.0	Casey, we like to break news on the show.
0:02.8	Yeah, let's break some news today.
0:04.0	I have some news, which is that I recently learned
0:08.1	that it appears that these self-driving car companies
0:10.2	in San Francisco are cracking down
0:12.2	on people having some sort of car.
0:13.2	Oh, hey, no, really?
0:14.7	How?
0:16.4	So the other night, I had some friends in town
0:18.4	from New York and we decided to go
0:19.9	on some self-driving car rides.
0:21.4	This is what one does when you visit San Francisco.
0:23.4	Yeah, this is the new riding the cable car.
0:25.1	Exactly.
0:25.9	Exactly, as you ride the self-driving car.
0:27.3	So I get out my Waymo app
0:28.9	and we order a Waymo, very smooth ride, no complaints.
0:31.8	In the middle of the ride, so this is at night,
0:33.8	we're driving down the street in the Castro
0:36.3	and the light in the back seat comes on.
0:39.4	Okay.
0:40.2	And a voice comes over the speaker,
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