![]() The show’s production team is Emefa Agawu, Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld, Rogé Karma and Kristin Lin. ![]() This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Emefa Agawu. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros So I wanted to talk to Senator Wiener about the political workings of his weird city and state - a place where traditional labels break down, where abundant resources meet equally abundant problems and where change is actually happening. And in recent years, he’s introduced legislation that would decriminalize certain psychedelics, provide access to therapy to all incarcerated Californians, and pilot supervised injection sites. He was introducing bill after bill to address the state’s housing affordability crisis long before the term “YIMBY” was a widespread political label. Senator Wiener has represented San Francisco in the California Senate since 2016 and, before that, served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. If California has long been a bellwether for national liberal politics, Senator Scott Wiener has been something of a bellwether for California politics. For that reason, the tensions and difficulties facing the Golden State are often a signal of what is to come for the Democratic Party nationally. And in many major cities - Los Angeles and San Francisco, for example - Republicans have little or no political power. No Republican has held statewide office in over a decade. But in California, Democrats are at the wheel. The dysfunction of our national politics is often attributed to division and gridlock. It also has immense income inequality, arguably the worst housing crisis in the country, and the highest poverty rate in the nation when you factor in housing costs. The state is home to staggering wealth, world-remaking tech companies, and some of the world’s boldest climate policy. Special thanks to Sonia Herrero and Kristina Samulewski.Ĭalifornia is a land of contrasts. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. The show’s production team is Emefa Agawu, Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld, Roge Karma and Kristin Lin. This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin. Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at /ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at. God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn Mentioned:Pharmako-AI by K Allado-McDowell developers are willing to keep designing technologies that they think may destroy humanity and more. systems reveal far more about humanity than we like to admit, why we might be in a “sorcerer’s apprentice moment” for artificial intelligence, why we often turn to myth and science fiction to explain technologies whose implications we don’t yet grasp, why A.I. development, why programs like ChatGPT can profoundly unsettle our sense of reality and our own humanity, how the behaviors of A.I. We discuss how Silicon Valley’s particularly weird culture has altered the trajectory of A.I. ![]() How do we learn to navigate - even embrace - the weirdness of the world we’re entering into?Įrik Davis is the author of the books “High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica and Visionary Experience in the Seventies” and “TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information” and writes the newsletter “Burning Shore.” For Davis, “weirdness” isn’t just a quality of things that don’t make sense to us, it’s an interpretive framework that helps us better understand the cultures and technologies that will shape our wondrous, wild future. It’s going to look, feel and function differently from the world we have grown to recognize. But if there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s this: The future - shaped by technologies like artificial intelligence - is going to be profoundly weird. In recent months, we’ve witnessed the rise of chatbots that can pass law and business school exams, artificial companions who’ve become best friends and lovers and music generators that produce remarkably humanlike songs.
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