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Nick’s Non-fiction | Super Crunchers


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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!
Ian Ayers bestseller, Super Crunchers, is a deep dive into data and the devout power quantum computing will have over our future. Did you know more accidents are due to drowsy driving than drunk driving? Insurance companies plan on using micro sensors to determine an increases on your premium based on how many lanes you drift across and dreams you drifted into. Super computers are often super douches to those paying most for its service. Airlines are phasing in smart rebooking to upgrade customers who’re most at risk for continued business rather than existing club members. The book arises a Phillip K. Dick contemplation of technology, ‘Is our sole evolutionary purpose to produce technology, passing the baton to the AI, or do we make machines to serve man’? Ayer crosses the pc line into the forbidden science of IQ deviation and the inconsistencies between the sexes. Ex-president of Harvard, Larry Summers was impeached for recognizing this data going to show even at the apex of academia your future is in the hands of the Super Crunchers.
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0:00:45 Introduction
0:03:25 About the Author
0:06:25 Ch1: Who’s Doing Your Thinking for You?
0:13:45 Ch2: Creating Your Own Data
0:21:25 Ch3: Government By Chance
0:27:20 Ch4: Evidence Based Medicine
0:33:55 Ch5: Experts vs. Equations
0:38:30 Ch6: Why Not?
0:46:00 Ch7: Are We Having Fun Yet?
0:51:55 Ch8: Future of Intuition
0:59:25 Next Time & Goodbye!
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