AI is an Excitable Boy
In 1978 Warren Zevon released a cheerful, bouncing song about a young man whose behavior escalates from strange to monstrous, while a crowd keeps singing the same excuse after every verse. This episode uses that song to look at Silicon Valley’s celebration of excitability, the eternal boy and the old man in today’s AI debates, and the psychology of how we talk ourselves out of seeing what’s in front of us.
The real subject turns out to be the rest of us, standing around explaining why it all makes sense.
In this episode
* Why Zevon’s chorus does the work of denial without denying anything
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