Robert Wright and Andrew Day discuss items from the Earthling.
0:42 Where’s Mickey?
5:00 Why ChatGPT is the real person of the year
20:41 The New York Times sues OpenAI
33:40 Bob’s bitter vindication on Russia-Ukraine
43:12 Israel threatens a wider war
48:25 Efforts to remove Trump from the ballot
1:00:13 2024 predictions
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NZN’s Person of the Year!
Note: The NZN team’s annual year-end holiday break is nigh, so no Earthling next Friday. Which means this is our year-end issue. Accordingly, it begins with high-gravitas reflections on this past year and the year to come: In 1927, Time Magazine named its first man of the year (Charles Lindbergh), in 1936 it named its first woman of the year (Wallis Simpson), and in 1982 it departed from the whole person-of-the-year paradigm, naming the desktop computer “machine of the year.”
Recorded December 28, 2023.
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