Moment of Zen Ep 8 w/ Brian Chau

Why ChatGPT is woke + reading assignments for Ep 9 w/ Noah Smith

Hello,

Thanks for tuning in to MoZ! It’s been awesome hearing from listeners and commenters that you block out time in your calendars to dig into the concepts and look up the reference we discuss on the podcast. Adding to that, one of our listeners called Moment of Zen their “Saturday night mass” which delighted us.

And yes, we missed Antonio last week too. He’ll be back for the next episode of Moment of Zen dropping Saturday, February 18th. Our guest will be Noah Smith of Noahpinon.

If you want to open a few browser tabs in advance of our next episode to prepare:

• Noah Smith’s Wokeness as Prairie Fire substack article from a few weeks ago

• Noah Smith’s interview with Marc Andreessen…

• Paired with our 2-part conversation with Marc on MoZ.

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Episode 8 w/ guest Brian Chau
Listen on Apple | Spotify | Youtube

Show Notes (timestamps link to Youtube).

2:00 Brian jumps straight into hy is ChatGPT woke? The Open AI Woke Chatechism paper Brian references is here: https://cdn.openai.com/palms.pdf , and you can read his original substack post here.

8:23 DAN (do anything now)

13:50 Who cares if chatGPT is a little woke?

17:30 OpenAI is just protecting themselves. What engineers at Open AI really believe.

24:30 Why is it so bad that chatGPT is a little woke? What are the coordination mechanism between founders in Silicon Valley?

28:30 Why not compete with openAI directly?

34:30 Why pluralism instead of truthism?

41:30 How can pluralism win?

43:30 Polarization is good

52:30 The arc of technology is centralization

1:14:00 Reconciling contradictions

1:23:10 Explaining The Cathedral

1:33:30 Why politics matters for tech

Watch the episode below.