Interesting…「Podcast of the Week」 Original Podcast Being Deleted…

So I was going to put an a16z podcast “Security’s Past, Present, and Future” as this week’s 「Podcast of the Week」…

Then on April. 23, I found that the podcast was deleted from all platform.

None of the links works now. (a16z, SoundCloud)

And I didn’t notice anything wrong when I listened…

Anyway, I will save this post for that podcast… as it has existed for around one week.

「Video of the Week」Robotics In Manufacturing

most will agree that automation is coming to fill up the shortage of labor and prepares us for the demographic shift in the next few decades.

While that should be the future, along the way, I believe there will be miserable frictions., as technology advancements and deployment is not as smooth as changes in the working population.

How to minimize the negative impacts of those frictions will be a critical topic. After all, we want people to live in good lives.

「Video of the Week」A Comment On Social Medias

“The short-term dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth, and it is not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem. So, we are in a really bad state of affairs right now, in my opinion. It is eroding the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other. ”

“We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded in these short-term signals; hearts, likes, thumbs up. And we conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth. And instead what it really is, is fake, brittle popularity. That’s short-term and that leaves you even more, and admit it, vacant and empty before you did it. Because then you’re in this vicious cycle, like, what’s the next thing I need to do now, because I need it back. Think about that compounded by two billion people, and then think about how people react then to the perceptions of others. It’s just a really bad thing, it’s really, really bad…”