Ed Zitron

How's it going, boys?

Hey, Niall.

It's the same thing with Slow Hands.

Slow Hands is not about anything else really, is it?

You know, our taste so good can't be about food.

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Hello and welcome to Better Offline.

I'm, of course, your host, Ed Zitron.

That's right, I'm back, all of you.

And to be clear, when I said I was having wisdom teeth surgery, I meant I was having more of them added to make me more powerful.

The operation was a success.

I apologize also for doing this week in reverse with the longer episode on the Friday and the monologue on the, well, I guess Tuesday, I guess.

I had to put out OpenAI's financials at the last minute, and well, here we are.

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And as ever, if you have anyone else's financials, you can catch me on ezitron.76 on Signal.

It's going to be in the episode notes.

Anyway, today, now that I'm done drinking milkshakes, I'm joined by the wonderful computer science professor and writer Cal Newport to talk about AI, but specifically to talk about what he calls doom trolling in one of the best pieces I have read on AI ever.

Cal?

You haven't lost $11 billion or anything.

You need to get those numbers down.