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Two Canadian idiots with a podcast and too much time on their hands. Come listen to us struggle to attain relevance in an already oversaturated market! We discuss everything from nerd news, movies and gaming to personal experiences that we vastly overestimate the value of. Is it quality content? Sometimes! Come and laugh at us now!
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This week, we talk about: Our worst jobs What we wanted to be when we grew up Camping Astrology Ghosts: Fact or Fiction?
This week, we talk a little bit more about love, single life, and how different we are with relationships. Also, Chili makes some lovely cake metaphors!
Hey everyone! Syed is finally back after taking a brief hiatus to focus on fatherhood. This week on the Thinkfast Nerdcast: More embarrassing sex stories! Phobias! What makes a job a job Bullying, cyberbullying and suicide (trigger warning) Generation gaps Childhood trauma More Marvel movies! Chris vs Syed
We took a short hiatus as Sy has welcomed a brand new baby girl into his life, but now we're back with a special guest host and ready to go! This week, we talk about: Reliance on technology, drugs, Trump, love and loss, "radical candor", hobbies vs work, life-streamers, and much much more!
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(sorry guys for the comment spamming, but it's an interesting topic). The problem with the question of consciousness is that we're comparing AI consciousness to the only type of consciousness that we know: human consciousness. Chances are that AI consciousness would develops into something completely different. So I find a lot of the premise for this type of discussion invalid because we're looking at a new out of the box problem with an old mindset.
The goat fucking example is perfect.
Also, it's too early to think about giving rights to an AI. And... would they even want rights?
Also.... this might scare some a bit... but we're at a point in machine learning that a machine that sometimes would do something that even the programmer doesn't understand, because they're are no longer programming "rules" into a machine, they're programming the computer how to learn on it's own (I'm oversimplying it, but that's the gist of it.) ALSO for the topic of unemployment, as we're approaching an age where more robots are bing implemented, something called basic income is being discussed (where everyone gets a minimum income because robots are producing the necessities for us, again, I'm oversimplying it, but I encourage you to youtube it). AND NOBODY JUST SWITCHES ON SKYNET. They don't just build a huge thing and then flip it on, things gets tested bit by bit. (I'm typing as I listen to the podcast so I can't finish any of the discussion points before I want to jump to another point.) Still a fan, love you guys, keep up the good work.
The number of points I want to cover for this topic is too damn high.