So Cute that It Will Takeover Your Life...

Martin and Kouji use Ted Chiang’s short story The Lifecycle of Software Objects as a platform to discuss the concept of personhood, inequity, and the political process. Along the way, Martin admits to failing the Turing Test and hunting culinary heretics.If you find this conversation interesting, and even if you don’t, look for Ted Chiang’s collection of short stories, Exhalation where this story resides. You can probably find it if you search on the story title from some errant English class that didn’t lock down their site. But I think he is an author worth having on your bookshelf, even if your bookshelf is in the cloud.Four AI songs help you get through the meandering. Do you find them amusing, or annoying? Please subscribe and leave your thoughts in the comments section. Get full access to In my professional opinion... at radagastbrown.substack.com/subscribe