A public record of some of my thoughts. Feel free to comment, but don't expect me to respond.
While the boys drink Crowhill’s audacious braggot, they discuss some of Prager’s recent outrageous statements and the social media censorship of Prager University.
Prager suggests that the worldwide lockdown may be the greatest mistake in human history. Quite a claim, which the boys evaluate.
The next big issue about Prager is his censorship on YouTube and other social media outlets.
Who gave them the right to do this?
Many thanks to Burgess Video for putting this together.
People who know such things tell me that it’s a good idea to be discerning about whose connection request you accept on LinkedIn. The quality of your connections goes into some spooky score whatchamacallit that influences algorithmic joo joo, which influences your visibility / networking index. Or whatever.
My interpretation is that I shouldn’t accept too many connection requests from sales people who just want to pitch me something.
Unless she’s cute.
No, that’s not a conscious choice, but I know enough about marketing to know that such things are rolling around in the back of my brain when I evaluate a connection request.
Surely someone studying “implicit bias” in college has tested this, right? You use the same text in the profile, but for one you put the picture of some average-looking Indian dude, then a white guy, then a black guy, then an attractive woman ….
If you doubt that there’s female privilege in that part of the game, you’re not paying attention.
Have you ever experienced this?
You can have five people talking about some topic, and another person can listen — from a particular point of view — and point out a unifying thread that the people in the discussion aren’t even aware of.
For example, let’s say five managers are discussing operational issues, and the marketing guy listens in. He could pick up themes and ideas that the managers aren’t thinking about. They might not even be aware of them.
I think a lot of our lives are that way. We do and say things and we aren’t even sure why we do or say them, unless and until somebody points them out and explains them to us.
P&C drink and review a mango IPA, then discuss self-driving cars.
There’s a 1-5 level system for different levels of car automation. We’re at about level 3 now, but we’re getting closer to levels 4 and 5.
In order to give some context to the discussion, the boys replay some footage of their recent ride in a self-driving car, and all the ethical decisions that had to be made to program the vehicle before they got on the road.
Then they reflect on how self-driving cars would change life and society.