Listened to mathematician, physicist and hedge fund manager Eric Weinstein, in an interview about AI on the Triggernometry podcast. His smirk and focus reminds me of Carmaig de Forest. I like the view about artists and the prevalence of modernity in past songs like the Erie Canal or locomotion or the automobile. Songs about changes as they came and then he asks what are your favourite songs about apps? Is anyone singing about Waze or Google Maps? And submits Drake’s lyric “you used to call me on your cell phone” as an example of someone referencing here and now technology. Many of his ideas gave me pause, especially when he replies to Francis Foster’s fears of AI destroying jobs by saying you lost your model for capitalism, so what? AI is going to interfere with the ideas of repetitive jobs – what can we imagine doing instead? The conversation moves away from labour and capitol, what else can we do with life? I also liked the many unexpected musical references from Goo Goo Dolls to Son House, Bon Iver and Green Day.