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🗓️ 8 January 2025
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It may be cold outside, but the first Q&A of 2025 is a hot one. John and Glenn talk negotiating the modern mediasphere, the German language, education after affirmative action, code switching, social media and AI, and maintaining a friendship in spite of political differences.
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0:00.0 | All right, in no particular order. This is Matthew Shearer. Hello, Glenn and John, new |
0:07.1 | subscriber here, in the age of new media and information overload. How did the two of you determine |
0:13.5 | what is true and what isn't? Both sides of many debates claim the other side is either lying or misrepresenting the facts. |
0:23.5 | When I listen to the two of you debate issues such as Trump or Israel-Palestine, |
0:30.3 | I can find an almost equal number of news sources supporting both sides, excuse me. |
0:36.8 | I'd love to hear how the two of you deal with this without getting lost or overwhelmed. |
0:43.6 | It's a good question. |
0:45.5 | You know, one thing that has tripped me up occasionally lately, because it's just so new with AI, |
0:52.4 | there are times when, you know, I'm kind of lazily going through things and I'll read |
0:56.5 | some description of something or, you know, some report about something. |
1:01.3 | And I think, oh, really? |
1:02.8 | And it didn't read that anywhere else. |
1:05.0 | And then I'm going to, oh, wait, wait, this is, this is, this AI made this up. |
1:09.0 | And actually, this is not the case. |
1:10.8 | You do have to be careful with that these days. |
1:14.0 | But I mean, a part of it is that in many cases, |
1:16.4 | it's not what's correct and what's incorrect. |
1:18.8 | And so, for example, with Israel-Palestine, |
1:21.4 | there are no easy answers. |
1:22.7 | I think both of our impatiences |
1:25.6 | with people who think that it's really just a cut and dried case, |
1:29.1 | because I, for one, Glenn, I think you would say this, have a hard time seeing it that way. |
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