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Welcome to watching Westworld, the officially unofficial podcast for Westworld on HBO. I'm Jim.

I'm Aaron.

And today we're talking season four, episode four, generation loss.

Aaron, we didn't really dive into this in the instant take.

Let's talk about the title for a second.

Generation loss.

What's the deal with that?

I'm glad you mentioned it because it was in my notes because we did forget to talk about it.

It's so, so it refers to the phenomenon and digital copying.

I didn't really count a copy.

Before we had the internet, you might be familiar with your grade school teacher,

if you're a Gen X or younger,

hating out photo copies of assignments.

There was something, it was like that weird purple thing, the duplicator.

You can tell how many years in a row they've duplicated a thing based on how fuzzy the lines are,

and how crappy the art looked.

If you've seen an image meme that's been copied and copied and copied,

and it starts getting artifact-y and jaggy and this starts losing resolution,

it's what happens, the destructive part of a copying process.

You can make a perfect digital copy,

but this MP3 you're listening to might be, I don't know, what, 150 megabytes.

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