The wrong boys continue their 4 hour odyssey into Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the rest of them. 

The Wrong Boys are talking AI, ALI, AGI, and ASI- ChatGPT, Midjourn, For-Profit Hype Cycles, Self Driving Cars, Roko's Basilisk, Whether AI can save us, and Whether AI might doom us. Whether we should even call it AI in the first place. What about the Artists? All these ideas and more, crammed into this humdinger of a 2 hour first course of our two-part on AI.

Show notes to follow

Episode Artwork by Anna Sorokina / www.annasorokinaart.com

hawn is joined by Graham Culbertson of the Everyday Anarchism podcast to talk about Library Socialism, Everyday Anarchism, Basic Income vs Jobs Guarantee, David Graeber, and other topics!

Doctorow on Everyday Anarchism:

Graeber's Pirate Enlightment -- Cory Doctorow (everydayanarchism.com)

Democratize Everything on Srsly Wrong:

207 – Democratize Everything – srsly wrong

Shawn and Aaron continue their read of Jordan Peterson's fascinatingly strange right wing Christian diarrhea self-help book, getting through rules 7, 8, and 9 with some digressions about all-meat diets and hierarchal naturalism.

Listen to the full episode here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/83564328/

Crossover episode! We went on librarypunk about the rights of minors to read, to know, and to be treated as people. We talk about our memories as children and accessing information at various stages in our development, and what the liberation of children will look like in regard to libraries.

On librarypunk (with notes)

090 - Right of Children to Read and Know feat. Srsly Wrong | librarypunk

We have a balanced discussion about the first 6 rules for life from Jordan Peterson's life's work. This bonus episode is an antidoot to chaos.

This whale octopus mushroom, Shawn and Aaron Whale Octopus and Mushroom. For you and your WOM.

Theme Song by Far Flowers:

https://farflowers.bandcamp.com/

Read WOM Books:

The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Hal Whitehead, Luke Rendell

The Soul of an Octopus by sy montgomery

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

We're joined by video essayist Andrewism to discuss David Graeber's second posthumous book- Pirate Enlightenment.

In this very special new bonus episode, Aaron + Shawn discuss eating bugs, the world economic forum, globalism vs globalization, the politics of disgust, and even try out eating a few bugs of their own.

Books cited:

Edible Insects: A Globa History by Gina Louise Hunter

Edible Insects and Human Evolution by Julie J Lesnik

Insects: the edible field guide by Stefan Gates

Articles cited:

Insect diet helped early humans build bigger brains, study suggests - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis (wustl.edu)

Conservatives React Differently to Disgusting Pictures - The Atlantic

The Wrong boys speak with David Graeber about his new book ‘Bullshit Jobs’, exploring the ever multiplicating ways our society makes up stuff for people to do. They also discuss the puritan work ethic, and even discover how to solve global poverty in just three steps.

Episode Transcript: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bo-56B7NUGw_3dXmSOj-EOiYpSw33_mxGlczyVF3m4c/

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