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The Hidden Cost Of Overthinking Everything - George Mack - #1111
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What Does the World Really Think of Britain?
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The hosts use AI to probe perceptions of British attractiveness, discuss the UK's autoimmune self-criticism, and riff on Britain's cultural exports from Shakespeare to quantum computing.
A developer using AI to control his DJI Roomba with a PlayStation controller accidentally found a security flaw giving him access to 7,000 other people's vacuums — including live camera feeds and microphones. AI is making accidental surveillance trivially easy.
British builder Tommy McHugh developed savant syndrome after suffering a double brain haemorrhage at age 51, becoming a compulsive painter and poet who worked on multiple canvases simultaneously.
British builder Tommy McHugh strained so hard on a toilet at 51 that he burst two blood vessels in his brain, fell into a coma, and woke up as a compulsive artist speaking in rhymes. Liam Gallagher got hit with a hammer and immediately wanted to start a band. Brain trauma as creative catalyst is a real thing.
