Ep. 238 - Boys Club LIVE: The Pope on AI, Enhanced Games, Ferrari's First EV and guest Jacob Taylor from Brookings Institution on "Context-maxxing"
About this episode
The episode discusses AI, a viral dating post, Ferrari's new EV, and features an interview with Jacob Taylor on cognitive agency.
This week on Boys Club Live, Natasha and Quasimatt break down a viral Reddit dating discourse post about a woman who demanded an Uber from Greenwich Village to Williamsburg (7:58), react to Pope Leo XIV's 42,000-word encyclical warning about AI and his tour of Ferrari's polarizing new electric car (16:58), sit down with Brookings Institution fellow and Oxford anthropologist Jacob Taylor to discuss his paper on "Context-maxing" and how to use AI without losing your cognitive agency (36:41), and close out with a breakdown of the Enhanced Games, a for-profit, doping-encouraged athletic competition that somehow drew real Olympic athletes (1:05:06).
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