AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
5min chapter
Ep. 247: The Productive Life (w/ Sarah Hart-Unger)
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Psychological Bankruptness of Our Response to Disruptive Technologies
Tyler Cowen: We are not psychologically handling well this reality of radical technological changes. He says a lot of the reactions right now are what he calls copes, which are based off of very specific predictions about what will happen or what definitely won't happen.Cowen: Radical agnosticism is the correct response where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. The mere fact that AGI risk can be put on par with those other distance possibilities simply should not impress youvery much.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode