Join us as we discuss the 2024 election results, make sense of voting trends, and make predictions for the next few years.

(0:00): Intro snippets

(00:55): Surprised by election results? Breakdown by different groups

(26:03): Predictions for next 4 years

In this episode, Kihong and Thomas celebrate one year of Adulting and Adrift and look back on past episodes :)

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(1:10) Intro

(3:00) Gun and Marianne introduce themselves

(4:30) How did you meet?

(10:30) Cultural differences - Korea vs. Finland

(19:00) Sustaining a relationship while moving many times

(23:00) Language dynamics in the relationship - role of English, Finnish, Korean

(38:45) Advice for intercultural relationships

(42:35) Commitment in relationships

(47:40) Adjusting to life in the US

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(1:56) Intro

(5:30) High school and college

(49:40) Relationships

(58:05) Career

(1:05:37) Family

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(1:32) Intro: Current Events Recap - Trump, Harris, Stocks, Olympics, Boeing

(8:05) Donald Trump's Attempted Assassination

(13:45) Biden Stepping Down

(22:00) Kamala Harris, Charli XCX, Tampon Tim and Political Memes

(29:30) JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, Rise of MAGA, Nativism, and Immigration

(1:03:25) Tim Walz, Josh Shapiro, Choosing a running mate

(1:11:00) Stock Market Jitters, Bank of Japan, Uncertainty

(1:17:43) Ukraine invading Russia

(2:00) AI-generated content on social media

(4:30) Social Media and Gen-Z slang

(13:09) Facebook going downhill

(19:50) To exchange numbers or Instagram handles?

(29:10) Getting cyberbullied

(33:20) Attention spans, short-form content, viral trends

(45:18) YouTube

(48:37) Reddit

(57:33) Spotify

(0:00) Highlights

(2:23) Intro

(3:52) What informs your value system? Kihong's turn

(17:45) Actions, habits, and desire

(23:55) What informs your value system? Thomas's turn

(32:40) Cognitive biases

(38:25) Civil discourse and cancel culture

(48:55) Student protests

(56:35) Applying value systems in your career and in the corporate world

(1:00:45) Story of Franz Jaegerstaetter, conscientious objector in WWII

(1:05:00) Utilitarianism

(1:11:00) Trolley Problem

(0:00) - Clips

(1:40) - Intro

(2:30) - TikTok

(12:42) - Messi in Boston

(17:15) - Our friends are all getting married!

(31:25) - Living with roommates

(34:45) - Feedback from listeners on Love and Dating, Career

(07:30) Masculinity: race and culture mixed

(18:00) Expectations growing up as boys: Thomas and Kihong’s story

(25:00) Traditionally gendered spaces

(30:30) Masculinity influencers

(40:00) Talking about what’s going on - why it’s so hard to build a good platform of open discourse

(44:30) Gender relations are at all-time low

(49:00) Breaking down these “male influencers”

(56:00) Having the right role model: how to guide future generations properly

Please provide thoughts! Thomas and I understand that this is a sensitive topic and that we are two straight men talking about this. So please give us constructive criticism and add inputs. Thank you!

Intro

(03:00) Intro to AI - birth of the concept and its evolution

(14:00) Phase 2 of AI: the transformer architecture, element of attention

(20:00) Why hardware is so important

(23:00) AI vs. the human brain

(30:00) How Kihong and Thomas first experienced AI

(43:00) Core principles of “Safe AI” - possible? Maybe humans are the biggest risk….

(53:00) How Kihong and Thomas use AI at work

(01:05:00) AI’s impact on career and capitalism, post-labor economics and UBI

(01:16:00) Societal inequality within a country and between countries; mass exodus

(01:19:00) Misinformation and low-quality content

(01:24:00) How to co-exist with AI

Outro

Check out these links:

Andrej Karpathy blog post from 2015: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

A.I. Artificial Intelligence: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/

Alphago vs. Lee Sedol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol

AI and UBI: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-predicts-universal-high-160015532.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACUPQMXHFNi_R9EqHBehchba-6AN8qYzZ2NEHuqglVJSoDdb6rzBDnsto7roPor5IPclW0elIFVyuhrEAY1TLqh2jYlzl1yvC7dhDQwnvOuGvnjJxvQNOiIqN13_5GaH0VySwjmm3gm2-_8tieGpJ42ccsbafIBNOdVcrlGzSMRT

Post-labor economics: https://newatlas.com/technology/post-labor-economics-shapiro/