Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff.

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Jon Evans – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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