The speaker likes Elon Musk's statement that the funniest outcome is often the most likely. They suggest that Musk hiring YOL Roth to fix a problem and restore trust and safety at X would be a humorous outcome. The speaker is unsure if Roth would be available for the job, but suggests asking anyway. They express low confidence in their predictions and anticipate that there may be other dominating stories in the coming year. The speaker proposes opening prediction markets for their 2024 predictions, allowing listeners to wager fake money on whether these things will happen.
Last year, we predicted what 2023 in tech would look like. This week, we take a look back at those predictions, see what we got right and wrong, and make new ones for 2024.
Then, the actor, comedian and writer Jenny Slate joins us to answer your Hard Questions.
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