“People, en mass, realizing this is bad,” Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick explained of the current pushback against AI, “is motivating people to get out and support their communities and to speak up for things and to really push against this notion of things being inevitable and that we don’t have a say in it…That is great.”
“One of the conversations I had this morning was around the idea of of individuals or people with small platforms not really being able to make a difference in those wider discourses,” Ben Dietz explained, referring to an discussion he had earlier in the day with people about AI. “I was reminded of that the story that Cal Newport wrote recently, where Dwight Eisenhower, who — at the time — was the president of the US, had a heart attack on the golf course and it catalyzed this whole discussion around diet and exercise as a means to avoid heart disease and then gave rise to a boom in the food pyramid and running culture and all this other stuff.”
“One guy — albeit somebody quite important, but one guy — has a medical emergency and it catalyzes this daisy chain of effects,” he says. “Matt, I wonder, is there anybody you’re looking at there or anywhere who who you feel could catalyze that kind of reaction — outside of Rihanna.”
“Just to thumb it down to one individual is kind of like tricky,” consumer trends researcher, Matt Smith, says. “I get what you’re saying around like people advocating for their own communities and I think that that’s cool, but — Man. — at the same time, I hate finding myself on the same side as the NIMBYs, you know what I mean? We need more houses at the same time we need fewer data centers and more houses. Whoever’s running on that platform could galvanize both.”
“Less data centers, more houses,” Ben wonders. Perhaps that is a winning strategy? We continue this discussion, getting into the politics of a figure like Spencer Pratt and if creators like James Charles are as relevant today as they were ten years ago. Listen in above, and on YouTube and Spotify.
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