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Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
Episode 9 - Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
This week we are taking a break from the podcast for Thanksgiving. A big thanks to all of our listeners!
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Partial Transcript:
Welcome everybody to the good data podcast. We are taking this week off from interviews because of the thanksgiving holiday but we will be returning next week with another episode.
I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our listeners out there. We are so appreciative of the positive feedback that we have received. Also, I want to thank all of the great guests that we’ve had on the show. I am so happy to have been given the chance to speak with John Diamond, Nebeel Mahmood, Garrick Sturgill, Owen Osborne… Every one of our guests has been great in their own way and I’ve loved having those conversations.
I also want to set out, in public, one of our big goals for this show, namely putting the “good” in good data. I am really interested in what technology means for real people. Basically, I think this boils down to digital value… like, what is the point of any of this technology if not to make the world better… But also like… let’s stop implying that technology always makes the world better. There is so much hype out there in the world regarding the promise of technology.
Let’s take the decentralization of trust systems we find in crypto. That has yet to truly make a dent in trust systems even after burning through millions of kwh of electricity.
Let’s take social media. We’ve seen billions of people able to coordinate guests lists for parties at the same time that social media has enabled genocide.
Let’s take online learning. There are millions of hours of online instruction that have allowed just about anybody to learn just about anything… like… there are some great courses out there for free. I was going to include like a counterpoint but actually this is probably the best use of the internet that we have regardless of whatever fake educational content there is – it’s totally overshadowed by good content.
Digital value has always been in the dna of this podcast and I’m planning to lean into it even more in the coming episodes. We’re still going to be talking data centers but now that we have our feet under us, I hope that you come along with me to look at what we’re actually doing with all that computation. Like, we have these huge buildings that generate more information per hour than was produced in the entire twentieth century…
But for what end?
I’m so excited to continue this podcast and I’m so thankful for our wonderful listeners. Looking forward to some more great episodes of good data. We’ll see you next time on the podcast.
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