Show Notes

• Tuaca and apple cider, basis accounting as a way to make etiquette decisions about defective Christmas gifts, embracing reasonable accommodations for those who need them at work, digital nomad visas, children playing unsupervised outside, and a blowout on Artificial Intelligence starting with ChatGPT by OpenAI.
• Intro & follow-up (0-39:00)
• Bad at working (39:00-40:47)
  • Digital nomad visas
• Bad at parenting (40:47-56:18)
  • Relevant hyperlinks
• Bad at Rhetoric (56:18-1:02:23)
  • Today’s function: euphemismus
    • From the Greek euphemia which means “words of good omen” also “good rumor” or “to speak fair”
    • Substituting a more favorable for a pejorative or socially delicate term
• ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligences (1:02:23-end)
  • ChatGPT by OpenAI
  • How Machines Learn by CGP Grey
  • False Rumor of Explosion at White House Causes Stocks to Briefly Plunge; AP Confirms Its Twitter Feed Was Hacked
• Next time:
  • The usual nonsense AND a review of Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
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