Adulting and Adrift

Adulting and Adrift

By Kihong Ahn and Thomas Hikaru ClarkSociety & Culture
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Adulting and Adrift episodes

  • 24: US Election

    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


    31 min
  • 22. International Marriage (feat. Gun Ahn and Marianne Vanhala)

    (0:00) Preview

    (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

    57 min
  • 21: Regrets

    (0:00) Preview

    (1:56) Intro

    (5:30) High school and college

    (49:40) Relationships

    (58:05) Career

    (1:05:37) Family


    1 hr 17 min
  • 20: So much to catch up on! (Trump Shooting, Kamala Memes, Hillbilly Elegy, and more)

    (0:00) Preview

    (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

    1 hr 29 min
  • 19: Social Media, Content Creation and Attention Spans

    (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

    1 hr 6 min
  • 18: Value Systems, Protests, Trolley Problem

    (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



    1 hr 16 min
  • 16: Masculinity, Social Expectations, and Online Spaces

    (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!

    1 hr 6 min
  • 15: AI, Societal Inequality, and UBI

    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/

    1 hr 29 min

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Audio record of two Zillenials discussing a grab bag of thought-provoking relatable content as they drift through their mid- to late- 20s :)