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Ep. 156: LISTENER CALLS: My Process for Writing New Yorker Articles

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Is There a Threshold for Artificial Intelligence?

i love that idea of getting andy on the show, because i have this dream i've talked about before where i want to write a novel in andy's style. So that style where it's not hard syphi, it's, i call it blackboard syphi, so you actually work through, you know, he works through the actual physics of his story with real world physics to understand how everything happens. I think it would be really cool, from a computer science perspective, towrite a novel about the the moment in which you cross, there's a term for this. There's a threshold that artificial intelligence could cross, where it is able to act independently outside of the

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