After getting over the initial shock of seeing your faces on RU-vid for the first time a few weeks ago, I must say you guys are rapidly reaching “peak Hard Fork” - hats off to a very well done and funny episode! Now, if we can just have Kevin say “totally” a few more times, we’ll all be in Hard Fork Heaven ;-)
new convert to the hard fork lifestyle and i am enjoying the video format. the media studies nerd in me is drawing lots of comparisons to the friday vergecasts though - these are so much more edited! not only are there the helpful cutaways to the news stories or video, there’s also the occasional visual and audio embellishments. the cuts around in the conversation and to stuff recorded a different time are much more frequent (or at least more noticeable). maybe something to do with different approaches to fact checking at different publications. seems like the tradeoff in making it more video friendly is that it comes out with more of a delay to the rss feed. plus the team here seems to be more interested in monkeying with optimizing for youtube - different titles and thumbnail stuff. overall gives the impression that this production has a larger team or possibly more time for turnaround, and is interested in presenting a cleaner and more refined final product. probably something here about house styles and valuing authenticity or flow or brevity or professionalism or whatever. i wonder if i can convince someone to let me write a paper about this…
Hi. Love your podcasts. I can’t wait for new episodes each Friday! I am from France and I just wanted to flag something you may have missed. Cyber truck is being banned in the EU because of its sharp angles that pause increased threat of injuries to pedestrians (basically chopping them down) in case of a collision. And also, being a « bunker on wheels », it doesn’t deform during crashes (as required by regulation) meaning all the energy is absorbed by passengers and not the car, resulting in augmented risks of serious injuries. So no cyber beasts to look out for soon on European roads… Thanks again to both of you for being so seriously entertaining!
Another perfect podcast from the masters of the form. I now--literally--get all of my grading done as early as possible on Saturdays to reward myself with Hard Fork (I'm an English teacher and grading papers now is a bit like looking through dog poop and trying to pick the mud out). That's how much I love Hard Fork.
To me, Kevin always sounded just like Joshua Malina so I always pictured him when listen to the podcast. Now I always watch and it's still jarring that he doesn't look like him.
I think the exploits DeepMind explored were based on known vulnerabilities. I cannot rule out psychedelics. The highly repetitive prompts and behaviors can play games with asymptotic values (eg as they approach 0.0 at some level of fp precision). We can make these models perform erratically if our prompts can manipulate the underlying math.
Any chance you could make the titles of the videos a closer match to the podcast episodes? For those of us who switch between here and the pod it’s not always obvious if I’m looking at the episode
38:51 for high value purchases, I believe you can trust people, on average, to make the best financial decision for themselves. And people will continue to purchase Teslas as long as that’s the best EV choice they can make. I love Rivian but I don’t drive trucks or massive SUVs, I love Polestar but (when I looked into it earlier this year) it was hard to find and had insanely high dealer markups, and (in general) every other non-Tesla EVs might as well not exist because it’s completely out of my price range. With the entire industry adopting NACS standard for the US in the next couple of years and Tesla opening up their charging network, more non-Tesla EVs will become viable purchase options but only if traditional auto manufacturers make good products at the same price range as Tesla (because Tesla will be releasing their $25k model in ~3-4 years)
Q, X, these guys need to learn the rest of the alphabet. 😂 This episode did make me think for the first time about how maybe some of these systems have secret messages, kind of like those secret songs at the end of tracks. In this case if you just ask it the right question it unlocks something. That would be interesting.
After we record, often times there are fact checks, and so we record those corrections a day later at home. We don't record video for these and it's really tough to match the audio quality/line delivery perfectly, but we're getting better at it!
I love you guys you have such a great dynamic . I hope the videos come out sooner than the podcast cause I can’t wait for the video once the podcast is out
39:10 everyone I’ve heard say this in my life own homes (charge in their garage), have at least 2 cars so they have a gas/hybrid backup, and can afford 100k+ cars. I don’t know how representative this type of buyer is compared to the entire EV market.
