About this episode
The episode discusses various interrelated AI stories and their implications on technology and society.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Chris, and Riley find themselves tangled in a rat king of interrelated AI stories: leftists apparently hate technology because they’re rejecting AI (and the mass exploitation that comes with it), the computer – a theoretically magical device hijacked by tech industry perverts – has become massively more expensive as a result of AI, and a former indie games luminary has dived into the deep end of AI psychosis and given agents free reign to blow $10,000 on the stock market. Keeping in mind that AI is nothing but stringing together sentences by predicting words at mass scale, we maintain a theme by moving along to prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi, which also had a big week with the former announcing Substack integration. How is “data” that arises from what is functionally just gambling useful to writers, news organizations, or anyone? Beats us! But here we are. Finally, we answer an all-timer of a mailbag question: “How many owls would you have to see in a day before you thought something weird was going on?” Credits - Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, and Riley MacLeod - Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude - Subscribe…
People in this episode
Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod
Topics covered
- AI technology
- prediction markets
- gambling
- leftist views on technology
- stock market
- mailbag questions
Keywords
- AI
- technology
- prediction markets
- gambling
- stock market
- mailbag
- leftists
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Aftermath, Multitude, Polymarket, Kalshi
Books & works: Substack, AI
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