EPISODE · Mar 1, 2025 · 1H 25M
Episode #13: Keith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
from Techs on Texts · host Keith Garrett, Jed Sundwall
Keith Garrett, coy technologist, father, and former marine, comes on to discuss Ted Chiang's masterful "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling." We talk about the benefits of forgetfulness, the limits of attention, the difficulty of assessing the benfits of cognitively affecting technologies, biases, colonialism, religion, and traffic.Show notes:Read "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"! Online or buy Exhalation wherever you buy books.Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi driversToward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of BiasesThe Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon TribesSocratese's story of Egyptian king Thamus and the invention of writingTed Chiang on the dangers of runaway AI relative to the dangers of no-holds-barred capitalism: Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear If you enjoyed this, please share it.Produced by Jed Sundwall. Write to jed at techsontexts.net with feedback and suggestions for books or guests.Intro music by Secret School.Outro music is "3/10th of the Population" by WE™.Please donate to Radiant Earth.
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Keith Garrett, coy technologist, father, and former marine, comes on to discuss Ted Chiang's masterful "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling."
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