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Episode 134 — Human Problems

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss why effective content moderation is so hard, how it can be done, and why it sometimes shouldn’t be. Plus, how tech optimists and tech critics make the exact same mistake. Presented by WordPress.com: Get 15% off on a new site by visiting WordPress.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: The Pollyannish Assumption — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Pollyannish Assumption and Bright Lines, YouTube’s Market Power, Google vs Amazon — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Tech’s Person of the Year; Uber at the End of 2017; Fowler’s True Impact, and Means — Stratechery Daily Update The Laborers Who Keep Dick … Continue reading Episode 134 — Human Problems

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0:00.0

Hi, James.

0:01.6

Ben, how are you?

0:03.5

I'm cold, actually.

0:05.4

I think I'm pretty sure I complain about this every year.

0:08.0

So apologies, longtime listeners.

0:10.0

But when it gets cold here, in cold being, you know, the low teens, Celsius, which

0:16.3

is, I don't know, 50s or 60s or something like that, sounds totally fine and reasonable,

0:20.5

right?

0:20.9

The problem is there's no heat or insulation, which means like the outside temperature,

0:25.8

inside temperature is kind of the same.

0:27.6

So you get this weird sort of feeling where you go outside, like, or you go outside,

0:31.2

you're like, it's not that cold out here.

0:32.5

And then you go inside, you're like, wait, it's really, it's really cold.

0:35.8

So, yeah, I'm kind of cold. But other than that,

0:37.8

I'm doing, I'm doing good. How are you? I'm good. It's also starting to cool down here in San Francisco,

0:42.5

and I'm about to make my annual pilgrimage back to Australia. So I can hardly fault you for not

0:47.8

enjoying 50s and 60s because I'm about to escape for similar reasons. Yeah, I know. No one particularly, you know, in Wisconsin, where I'm from, wants to hear about our weather

0:57.2

podcast, for sure.

0:58.7

So next week, we are going to try to record, but given your travel, we might not.

1:05.6

So just a heads up that if the next one does not show up next week, it's James's fault.

1:11.1

I just want to get that out there sooner rather than later.

1:12.9

Hight mail comes to me.

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