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Stephen Dubner

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

And I want something more along the lines of X, Y, or Z. But the X, Y, or Z could be like animal, mineral, or vegetable.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

It could be, I want more emotional stuff.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

I want more moto racing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

So I feel it's a great research tool.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

Now, it's not a substitute.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

It's like when computers started beating humans in chess and Go, which is very complicated years ago, people were, as they always are, worried with these new technologies.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

People will now stop playing chess.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

And in fact, that had the opposite effect

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

because no one wants to watch two machines play each other.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

I guess I could think on it more, but my first response would say, not only is it not unethical, because...

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

We know that the emotion that's being mistreated is not a human emotion.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

And we also know that the people who write that code and make that machine, they understand the way barriers are shiftable and so on.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

And additionally, I would say,

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

It's a really nice use of technology to absorb maybe someone's hostility that doesn't have to be then directed to a real person.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

It's like abuse the lawnmower.