P.J. Vote: Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv is the best thing I've read in a really, really, really long time. She's writing about mental illness and studying five different people who had severe mental illness. The cases aren't bizarre sort of bordering on something that feels like science fiction. They're just these case studies that will make you think,. however you feel about medication, they will confound you.
Once a technology is released into the wild, it doesn’t go back in the bottle. Except in one instance. PJ Vogt is the host of Crypto Island and an eponymous show, Weekly. You may have also heard him on Reply All or This American Life. Ricky Mulvey caught up with him to discuss: - The wild present and future for artificial intelligence - How virtual reality parallels early internet chat rooms - Incentives and tradeoffs in the decarbonization movement - The downfall of Flappy Bird Companies mentioned: META, GOOG, GOOGL, MSFT, TSLA, NTOIY Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: PJ Vogt Engineer: Tim Sparks
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