044: Revenge of the Nerds

We talk about helping elderly parents with tech support, situations when AI unhelpfully offers help, the unnatural mix of high and low quality in AI output, machines vs the human experience of creating art, the engineer/STEM perspective on art and creativity, the real revenge of the nerds, dad jokes, living in the lie; living in the truth.

Mentioned in this episode

Ted Chiang: Why A.I. Isn’t Going To Make Art

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs (book by Ian Leslie)

Miracle & Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon (Malcolm Gladwell)

Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion film “Pinocchio” (Netflix) and Shawn’s piece, In Praise of Slow Art

The Last of Us (HBO series)

The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel

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