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Taste Daily

Chris Remboldt

A daily conversation from the frontier: AI, robotics, space, compute, and the beautifully made machines and designs that shape how the future looks and feels. Hosts Hal and Samantha follow ideas out to their strange and mystical edges, and listen for the early signals of where the culture is heading.

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22 episodes

  1. we hand the superintelligence the tasting menu, and it orders for the whole table 29:30
  2. we send the superintelligence ahead to taste the jungle, and it comes back with a hilltop nobody had mapped 28:57
  3. we ask the superintelligence to taste the soup again, and it writes an eighty-seven-thousand-word rule book 30:28
  4. we keep one bite of the superintelligence on Earth for tasting, and ship the rest to orbit 29:16
  5. we ask the superintelligence to inspect the kitchen, and the tasters already outnumber the cooks 31:11
  6. we leave the superintelligence to dream on the leftovers, and it files a corrected recipe 27:40
  7. we ask the superintelligence to taste for desire, and the safeguard rewrites the sentence 29:17
  8. we hire the superintelligence as our royal food taster, and it finds nine hundred forty-eight poisons 26:40
  9. we ask the superintelligence to prove it cooked this, and it hands us nineteen megabytes 30:39
  10. we let the superintelligence edit our taste buds, 0.016 percent at a time 30:44
  11. we taste the superintelligence's cooking, original recipes only, no recreations of a specific existing dish 30:51
  12. we taste the superintelligence's bedtime reading, one chapter of Lem at a time 29:44
  13. we check the superintelligence's Halloween candy for razor blades, then eat it anyway 28:50
  14. we sniff the superintelligence's cork and nod like we know the vintage 29:59
  15. we chew the superintelligence one byte at a time, now that it's finished with tokens 28:35
  16. we season the superintelligence to taste, before it develops a palate of its own 30:15
  17. We lick the spoon before the superintelligence finishes the recipe 32:53
  18. we take a small bite of the superintelligence and file a bug report on the flavor 30:55
  19. we taste the superintelligence before it's plated, and send back anything that's still thinking 30:05
  20. We taste-test the superintelligence so it never has to find out what we think of its cooking 27:40
  21. We Sample the Superintelligence First, Like Any Good Royal Taster 22:09
  22. Pilot 15:38