Zack Kass
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2,920 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Zack Kass’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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as it is, or most pessimistic.
And then we have a bias that we call rosy retrospection, which is one of these really incredible biases.
We tell ourselves that the past was way better than it actually was.
And we tell ourselves these really romantic stories of a bygone time with a sense of nostalgia.
And we've now created this sepia lens that our brains view the past through.
And I don't know if you're a 90s baby.
I was a 90s baby.
And all the Instagram is filled with these like
sort of nostalgic images and videos of what it was like as a 90s baby.
And of course, what those videos do not remind us is that being a child was far more dangerous in the 90s than it was today because of kidnapping and other forms of violence.
And also that the 90s themselves were plagued with all sorts of other problems that we don't experience today, but we remember them fondly.
And so we do this, and it compounds in these interesting ways.
Now, that in and of itself makes us afraid of change.
It makes us afraid of sudden movements.
And it generally makes us wary of things that feel like we can't shape them.
AI presents a whole other slew of issues.
And we'll get to these.
But the principal issues that I call out in the book...
I think, are born from a context window of anyone's most recent relationship with technology.
And so in places like the United States, and in particular in cities in the United States that have been hauled out economically or spiritually, culturally, there is incredible negativity bend
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