Hamish Macdonald - After The Facts
3/29/20261 hr 26 min
Is it true that we live in a world without facts?
With AI becoming increasingly intertwined with our lives, and fake news infiltrating our screens, where do you go for truthful information and how do you know what to trust?
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This Academy of Imperfection is not all doom and world collapse, we promise. One, because we are joined by the brilliant Hamish Macdonald. And two, because Ryan’s Gut says it’s all going to...
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First 90 secondsHamish Macdonald· Guest0:00
There was a point in time where we imagined, like, a post-truth future in which none of us really knew what was real and what was fake, and I think probably the reality that we're all experiencing is that we're kinda there now. Certainly, the algorithms are feeding off basic functions in our brain, you know- Mm ... what we react to, what we have the emotional response to. The issue is, are these algorithms doing something back to us?
Ryan Shelton· Host0:27
Mm.
Hamish Macdonald· Guest0:28
I think we're all gonna have to arm ourselves better- Mm ... to confront the onslaught, the waves of information pollution that are coming our way, particularly with, with AI's development.
Ryan Shelton· Host0:38
I feel... I- I- I... My gut says we'll figure it out. [laughs] You know?
Hamish Macdonald· Guest0:44
[laughs] Humans are pretty resilient as well.
Ryan Shelton· Host0:48
Mm.
Hamish Macdonald· Guest0:48
You know? And, like, if you think back, not that long ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis might've been happening, or Chernobyl- Mm ... was happening, and people really genuinely thought this might be the end of the world.
Ryan Shelton· Host1:00
Yeah.
Hamish Macdonald· Guest1:00
But humans have a, a remarkable capacity to move through those things.
Ryan Shelton· Host1:06
[upbeat music] He's back. He is back, and boy, oh, boy, is this something to celebrate because for the first time as Bridge, producer Bridge just pointed out, never in the history of The Imperfects, and this is huge, this is huge. Never in the history of The Imperfects has a guest gone from