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Ep 330: Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The False Dichotomy of Art and Craft

I was blown away when Alpha Zero first game and, you know, it was just orders of magnitude ahead of stockfish at the time those games took place. And I want to lead with that to a question about what I feel is a false dichotomy people make about art and craft. In a certain sense, what you're saying about art is art is craft that it barely works because once everyone knows how to do it, it doesn't feel like art anymore. Once it works, we no longer call it technology.

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