Nicholas Christakis

That's all I'm doing nowadays.

But even that, Sam, do you remember that guy who was an expert on military tires?

Do you remember that call?

It was, I think it was during, I can't remember if it was when the Ukraine war started, I think.

And there was some, some guy who was an expert in the maintenance of military vehicles.

And he sent a long thread out about like how the tires hadn't, the trucks hadn't been moved around properly.

The tires hadn't been rotated, how all the tires were exploding.

I had no idea there was such a person.

And I read his whole thread and I was like, oh my God, it's so interesting.

All of that content, that expertise is, as far as I can tell, is gone from Twitter.

Well, first of all, whatever the algorithm is, I don't get that content.

The AI slop is a serious problem.

And I, one of my, my family teases me, I'm known to be particularly gullible.

And actually my re-narration of this is that I'm not stupid and naive and gullible.

I'm trusting.

Exactly, exactly.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

But the thing is, somehow these algorithms figured out that I like to look at like baby elephants.

And initially I got like real, I think, you know, like BBC photos of like baby elephants.

And then I think the algorithm started feeding me slop.