What podcasts say about George Mack
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What George Mack has said on podcasts
59 statements · 25 positive · 20 negative · 5 mixed · 9 neutral
The Duct Tape Man is restoring law and order.
“Duct Tape man brings back law and order.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 1:32
Gary Stevenson proposes a 2% UK wealth tax on annual wealth above £10 million.
“he wants to bring in a, I think, is it a 2 to 2% wealth tax on over 10 million per year inside of the UK”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 3:40
A 2% UK wealth tax could raise approximately £25 billion.
“If we can bring in a 2% wealth tax to the UK in particular, then that will raise, I think about 25 billion is Gary's thesis.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 4:08
Current average daily step counts are approximately 5,000.
“And currently the average is around about 5,000.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 24:20
Hunter-gatherers averaged roughly 18,000 daily steps for men and 15,000 for women.
“18,000 for men was the average step count for hunter gatherers. We estimate about 15,000 for women. Interestingly.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 24:24
Enjoying generosity is a better basis for relationships than tracking reciprocity.
“if you enjoy the act of giving, then just.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 29:20
AI development is more likely to involve many simultaneous efforts than one Manhattan Project.
“because there's so much competition right now, it's so hard for any of them to run away or create any form of Monopoly. So I think the onto it being a Manhattan Project, it feels way more like there's going to be 15 at once.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 1:04:08
Reduced physical activity and conversation contribute to mental-health problems.
“when you lose the lack of feet, hands and mouth, I do think that can be not necessarily a full explain of mental health problems, but it definitely contributes.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 1:18:08
Dance therapy outperformed exercise in treating depression in a meta-analysis.
“Dance therapy. Dance therapy outperformed exercise.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 1:19:05
Speech-to-text and audio tools will increasingly replace writing.
“This is going to become a bigger and bigger trend.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 1:23:45
Large language models can write adequately but not exceptionally.
“right now it can write good, but it can't write great.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 1:33:31
Models trained on averages tend not to take creative risks.
“When you have something that's trained on the averages, it doesn't take risks.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 1:33:41
Critical content spreads more readily than supportive content.
“being critical of something is incredibly mimetic. Being for something is actually quite anti memetic.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 1:46:40
Humans have made previously unlivable parts of Earth habitable.
“We've already terraformed the earth. We're already living in unlivable places.”
Open the episode · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143Listen at 1:59:35
AI coding capabilities currently exceed AI writing capabilities.
“currently way more capable than the writing side”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 11:06
Language models cannot reliably reproduce the quality of excellent supplied writing.
“even when I've given it great writing, it can't for whatever reason repeat it”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 11:56
Asian digital behaviors do not reliably predict future Western behaviors.
“And I think it's a little bit of a coin toss. Sometimes Asia is ahead of us, but sometimes it's just such a different culture.”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 18:22
People in the Philippines spend more time on phones than people elsewhere.
“They spend so much more time on their phones than any other part of the world.”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 18:59
The average normal person consumes 17 teaspoons of sugar daily.
“Normal consumes 17 teaspoons of sugar per day.”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 21:17
The average normal person takes fewer than 4,000 steps daily.
“Normal averages less than 4,000 steps per day.”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 21:30
The average normal person spends 22.3 hours indoors daily.
“Normal stays indoors for 22.3 hours per day.”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 21:38
Live shopping has not yet become widespread in the West.
“I'm yet to see that fully take off”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 23:15
Geographic proximity does not reliably imply cultural similarity or friendly relations.
“you think two places because they're next door neighbour, are very similar to one another or get on with one another, but historically the opposite”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 26:11
Successful pivoting after rejection requires understanding what the other party values.
“it's having that, that level of theory of mind of okay, I've been rejected from something. What does this person want that would make me completely invaluable”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 38:24
Heroes often ruminate on failures despite performing heroic acts.
“you'll have these acts of great heroism that don't have 100% success rate and then the individual spends so much time looping on that”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 45:40
A reported study found that 91.6% of worries did not materialize.
“it was found that 91.6% didn't come true”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 1:13:22
Advertisers typically observe campaigns more repeatedly than their audiences do.
“you're actually advertising to a moving parade”
Open the episode · The Most Important Questions Of Our Time - George Mack - #1124Listen at 1:14:51
Externalizing thoughts through writing, speaking, or walking helps interrupt rumination.
“So either think with my hands or as you mentioned, then think with your mouth or think with your feet so as you're walking.”
Open the episode · Black Holes, Denny’s Fist Fights & Japanese Handjob Culture - Rabbit Hole #4 - #1118Listen at 52:55
Theory of mind appears closely related to social detection and emerges around age four.
“it appears that it's closely related to theory of mind, which seems to come online at 4 years old. So a 3 year old almost has no theory of mind.”
Open the episode · Black Holes, Denny’s Fist Fights & Japanese Handjob Culture - Rabbit Hole #4 - #1118Listen at 1:40:58
Theory of mind appears to emerge around age four.
“theory of mind, which seems to come online at 4 years old.”
Open the episode · Black Holes, Denny’s Fist Fights & Japanese Handjob Culture - Rabbit Hole #4 - #1118Listen at 1:41:00
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