Who won the debate? Vlad's support for voice chat, or Yoann's insistence for asynchronous IM? You'll find out here!

But before, we go over things we took out from the previous episode as well as listeners’ comments. We discuss how tools allow a media-rich communication experience, what the future of communication will be after brain upload, the history of asynchronous IM, the terminology of signal processing, parallelism vs. really fast context switching...

In a pretty unusual twist, we actually did some research! Is asynchronous or synchronous, written or oral, objectively, scientifically better? We got the answer!

That point being settled once and for all, we move to a sad but predictable news: the cancellation of the cartoon Midnight Gospel on Netflix. We present the show and what we loved about it, before devolving, as is quite often the case for Yoann, into a rant against capitalism.

A meta-analysis of listening vs reading comprehension: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543211060871

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Today, we take the infamous thought that a lot of employees have had: “This meeting could have been an email!” and turn it into a debate! Let the duel between oral and written communication begin and crown the One True Communication Form!

We examine obvious and counterintuitive takes about which of these modes better conveys nuances and emotions, linearity vs. non-linearity, synchronicity vs. asynchronicity...

Could it be that we’re all subjects to the lobbying of extroverts overlord? What features could we get if we enforce a dystopia where we ban speech? How should you accurately measure the information bandwidth of a conversation?

All of this and more in this episode where we keep being stuck at the question: What do normal people do?

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We continue our conversation with you about what the ideal schedule should be. We mentioned how important it was to break monotony, so how about adding randomness and making every week different? They could all be special!

Or maybe the answer is to be found in the sky! As listeners pointed out, this whole mess is because of the lack of synchronicity between rotation periods of the sun, the moon and the earth!

After that, Yoann presents a game that drove him addicted to a point he had not felt for a while: Eco by Strange Loop Games. This game is a mixture between Minecraft and Eve Online. Your character is specialized, so you have to collaborate and build a political and economic system to stop a meteor from crashing on your planet! It turns out that this simple formula is an extremely fertile ground to study all kinds of different economic systems, and understand what works and doesn’t about capitalism.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/https://yo252yo.wordpress.com/2022/02/18/minecraft-the-metaworld/

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We prepare for the revolution and try to imagine what an ideal week reimagined from scratch would be like.

We try to look rationally at periodicity and divisions of time and their history, but that only brings us so far.

We agree that what really matters is the day-to-day feel, so we try to gauge what the perfect balance of productivity and rest would be. Of course, we want our solution to resist the age of automation, and even extend to a post-scarcity era!

Fortunately, Yoann has been working for himself for a year, and has had time to experiment with his schedule. Let's see what we can learn from that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_Beijing

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We look back on last episode's dive into the field of Japanese psychoanalysis, and discuss what we missed. In particular, we tackle the concepts of Lacanian's Lalangue, the Big Other, and dreams! We also discuss the castration tale of Sada, and Luke Ogasawara hypothesis that Japanese people are either paranoid or pervert. Quite a lot of risque topics :)

We end by casually talking about Yoann's recurring nightmares about Japanese arcade games...Join us on:

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We've been preparing this episode for quite a while and this time we have sources! We confront our knowledge of Japanese language and lacanian psychoanalysis to try and understand the Japanese psyche!

We start off by Lacan's famous statements about the fact that Japanese people have no need for psychoanalysis. We'll see what he was talking about through a brief history of the incredible chaotic mess that is the Japanese language. Did he know it well enough?

In any case, we felt it was worth widening the scope! From language, we move to the construction of identity in Japanese culture, but also to Buddhism and Sartre, to finish on the Japanese psychoanalytical concept of Amae.

Can we find anything here to cure the existential angst that comes from being an isolated lacking self? Or is this just inviting more problems?Introduction of the Japan Psychoanalytic Society

https://www.ipa.world/IPA/en/Societies/societies_focus/jps.aspx

FREUD, LACAN AND JAPAN

Kazushige Shingu

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3tzbPiuLr8kJ:https://thediscourseunit.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/shingu_mpm_paper.doc+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=fr

Why Lacan says : “no one who dwells in the Japanese language has a need to be psychoanalysed”

Luke S. Ogasawara

http://ogswrs.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-lacan-says-no-one-who-dwells-in.html

The Japanese subject and the unconscious

P-J Van Haecke

https://psychocinematography.com/2019/09/24/the-japanese-subject-and-the-unconscious-part-1/

February 2016 Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Takeo Doi

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295677377_Chapter_1_Psychoanalysis_and_the_Japanese_Personality_Chapter_2_Psychoanalysis_and_Western_Man_Chapter_3_Amae_and_Transference-Love_Chapter_4_Heeding_the_Vocabulary_of_Another_Culture_Psychoanalysis_i

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Welcome back to the conversation! This time, we didn't have many listeners' messages, but we know why that is! 

We come back to our adventure on twitter hacking, by first wondering about the position of twitter in the ever changing landscape of technology with the good old question: was it better in the past?

We then move to data science, wondering how many data points you need to draw meaningful conclusions from all the stuff we've been trying out.

Once we get our metrics down, it's time for optimization! We present a guaranteed way to get a few followers every day by following people on threads you're interested in, But which hashtag/keyword/user has the best follow back rate?

Finally, we dissect our twitter analytics to find out what makes the most successful tweet on the platform: what kind of words and topics give you the most reach or engagement? We have all the answers (on our very small sample size XD).

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In this episode, we open the doors to the behind the scenes of podcast production. We disclose without taboo or secret everything about how we measure our number of listeners and how trustworthy those tools are. But …we also talk money!

We decided to do a little contest: with the same amount of money dedicated to advertising, we competed to see who could make the best ad campaign. Of course, we each tried a bunch of different things, but we both centered our attempts around twitter.

What can you buy on twitter? How much does it get you? And most importantly, which is the best approach: the demographics based targeting of Vlad or the pseudo inflammatory rhetoric of /Yoann/? The answer will surprise you!

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In this informal episode, we continue talking with our good friend Geraldine who shares her experience of synesthesia, telling us what it is like to see letters as colors!

Then we talk a bit about brain plasticity and memory encoding, trying to take a very pragmatic approach and giving you tips to probe your own brain! Are memories always pictorial? Can you imagine something that you've never experienced in the past? Geraldine helps us by bringing her knowledge about Hobbes to the table!

Finally, we come back to the framework to define your mental abilities, and we try to explicit it and complete it with one of the most important and fascinating aspects: blurriness vs determination of perceptions. When you gain expertise, what is happening in your brain ?!?

Test your implicit bias here:

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There’s a lot of different ways for imagination to work. Some people can imagine clear pictures, while some others can’t. Vlad recently switched from one group to the other.

To understand what happened, we dive into an investigation where we’re joined by our good friend Geraldine, a researcher in philosophy of science.

We analyze his transformation, wondering whether he unlocked a new meta-cognitive capability or if he just developed new awareness of existing processes, or what other senses might be affected…

In the end, we try to figure out some sort of methodology to help anyone unlock new abilities of their brains, be it new kinds of qualia, experiences or perception…

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