Weird Things

The Quest for a Silent Burrito Delivery


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The episode opens with the hosts joking about wanting burritos immediately and turns into a discussion of faster delivery systems. Andrew introduces Zipline's drone-delivery model, describing how it keeps the aircraft high above the ground and lowers cargo by line to avoid noise and landing-safety problems. That leads naturally into a broader conversation about autonomous transport, including Waymo's route-based ride service and Zoox's purpose-built vehicle design, along with speculation about future mobile rooms, containers, and other vehicle-as-space ideas. The middle of the episode moves through AI and brain-interface ideas. The hosts discuss an AI-only social network, using ChatGPT as a vocabulary and etymology aid, and then a playful cave-packing exercise that leads into a real cave story about Cheetos left in Carlsbad Cavern and the microbial ecosystem it supported. From there they broaden into Mars ethics, robotic exploration, AI tool-building and sunk-cost thinking, before ending with a long entertainment segment on The Wire, The Sopranos, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, plus praise for Michael Keaton. Key topics Drone delivery designed to stay aloft: Andrew describes Zipline as a delivery system that drops cargo from a drone hanging high in the air, avoiding the safety and noise issues of landing on a porch or sidewalk. Autonomous vehicle design tradeoffs: Waymo is discussed as a mapped driverless ride service, while Zoox is framed as a boxier, purpose-built autonomous
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Weird ThingsBy Andrew Mayne

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