Grant Slater

Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) Writer Ross Andersen (@andersen) asks the questions shaping the future.  youtube.com/watch?v=NN31hR… In this episode, Andersen speaks with Futurology Producer Grant Slater (@grantslater) about time defining  the evolution of intelligent life.

Humans can’t reason. They’re not actually able to reliably make predictions given complex sequences of meaningful data. They can only fake it by brute forcing unreliable chains of serial symbolic reasoning, and even then most of the outputs are garbage

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Boris Yeltsin’s farewell speech, AI translated by HeyGen technology, which retains features of the original voice (like Yeltsin’s slow, slightly slurred delivery) and also alters lip movements to synchronize with the translation.

Why competent human translators are an excellent idea.

@seanilling Heya Sean! Long-time listener. First-time caller. I just applied for this role! Kind of a dream situation for me. I hope you get a chance to look at my application.

We’re looking for a new producer, come help me make a great show! boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/…

@thekeldakitty @descript Allo @descript! Your app is now low-key unusable for editing an ambitious @audible_com Original for @audioupmedia, the second season of a show named Podcast of the Year by @Adweek. What's it going to take to listen to more than 30 seconds of a composition without crashing?

@descript @grantslater

Hey @descript … compositions keep crashing every 3 lines for me and the rest of our team. It’s really hard to craft s2 of our award winning pod this way. We have a deadline, HELP!!!

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@SageWal55145721 Thanks, Sage! Hope all is well!

@grantslater !!! And what Kay said.

Oh look, I produced something that a magazine calls podcast of the year.

@KayKlein13 Thanks Kay! If you listen, I hope you enjoy it. It's weird. :)

@grantslater Way to go Grant. Great Aunt Kay is turning into Great Grandma Frances - just sitting and knitting and listening to Audible. Now I'll be listening to this.

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Any other Greenspans out there want to set up an OnlySpans site??

News from 110 years ago

Friends – I’m very excited to announce that I’m officially running for Santa Monica City Council! I’m running to make my community more inclusive, sustainable, and safe. And each of those begins with making it more affordable to live here. (thread) jessezwick.com

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