We use our approximate knowledge of many things to craft unanswerable questions. We mix cognitive science and philosophy with pop culture, tech and science to start with raw perspectives. Refining them through steamed up yet rational conversation we generally stumble upon odd answers. Hosted pseudo monthly by two humans.

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Who won the debate? Vlad&#39;s support for voice chat, or Yoann&#39;s insistence for asynchronous IM? You&#39;ll find out here!But before, we go over things we took out from the previous episode as well as listeners’ comments. We discuss how tools allow a media-rich communication experience, what the future of communication will be after brain upload, the history of asynchronous IM, the terminology of signal processing, parallelism vs. really fast context switching...In a pretty unusual twist, we actually did some research! Is asynchronous or synchronous, written or oral, objectively, scientifically better? We got the answer!That point being settled once and for all, we move to a sad but predictable news: the cancellation of the cartoon Midnight Gospel on Netflix. We present the show and what we loved about it, before devolving, as is quite often the case for Yoann, into a rant against capitalism. A meta-analysis of listening vs reading comprehension: <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543211060871" rel="nofollow">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543211060871</a> Join us on: notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

Who won the debate? Vlad's support for voice chat, or Yoann's insistence for asynchronous IM? You'll find out here!
But before, we go over things we took out from the previous episode as well as listeners’ comments. We discuss how tools allow a media-rich communication experience, what the future of communication will be after brain upload, the history of asynchronous IM, the terminology of signal processing, parallelism vs. really fast context switching...
In a pretty unusual twist, we actually did some research! Is asynchronous or synchronous, written or oral, objectively, scientifically better? We got the answer!
That point being settled once and for all, we move to a sad but predictable news: the cancellation of the cartoon Midnight Gospel on Netflix. We present the show and what we loved about it, before devolving, as is quite often the case for Yoann, into a rant against capitalism.

A meta-analysis of listening vs reading comprehension: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543211060871

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Conversations: optimal communication and midnight gospel

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Today, we take the infamous thought that a lot of employees have had: “This meeting could have been an email!” and turn it into a debate! Let the duel between oral and written communication begin and crown the One True Communication Form!We examine obvious and counterintuitive takes about which of these modes better conveys nuances and emotions, linearity vs. non-linearity, synchronicity vs. asynchronicity...Could it be that we’re all subjects to the lobbying of extroverts overlord? What features could we get if we enforce a dystopia where we ban speech? How should you accurately measure the information bandwidth of a conversation?All of this and more in this episode where we keep being stuck at the question: What do normal people do? Join us on: <a href="notdailypodcast.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a>@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

Today, we take the infamous thought that a lot of employees have had: “This meeting could have been an email!” and turn it into a debate! Let the duel between oral and written communication begin and crown the One True Communication Form!
We examine obvious and counterintuitive takes about which of these modes better conveys nuances and emotions, linearity vs. non-linearity, synchronicity vs. asynchronicity...
Could it be that we’re all subjects to the lobbying of extroverts overlord? What features could we get if we enforce a dystopia where we ban speech? How should you accurately measure the information bandwidth of a conversation?
All of this and more in this episode where we keep being stuck at the question: What do normal people do?

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Why this call should (not) have been an email?

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We continue our conversation with you about what the ideal schedule should be. We mentioned how important it was to break monotony, so how about adding randomness and making every week different? They could all be special!Or maybe the answer is to be found in the sky! As listeners pointed out, this whole mess is because of the lack of synchronicity between rotation periods of the sun, the moon and the earth! After that, Yoann presents a game that drove him addicted to a point he had not felt for a while: Eco by Strange Loop Games. This game is a mixture between Minecraft and Eve Online. Your character is specialized, so you have to collaborate and build a political and economic system to stop a meteor from crashing on your planet! It turns out that this simple formula is an extremely fertile ground to study all kinds of different economic systems, and understand what works and doesn’t about capitalism.<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/</a><a href="https://yo252yo.wordpress.com/2022/02/18/minecraft-the-metaworld/" rel="nofollow">https://yo252yo.wordpress.com/2022/02/18/minecraft-the-metaworld/</a> Join us on:notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

We continue our conversation with you about what the ideal schedule should be. We mentioned how important it was to break monotony, so how about adding randomness and making every week different? They could all be special!
Or maybe the answer is to be found in the sky! As listeners pointed out, this whole mess is because of the lack of synchronicity between rotation periods of the sun, the moon and the earth!

After that, Yoann presents a game that drove him addicted to a point he had not felt for a while: Eco by Strange Loop Games. This game is a mixture between Minecraft and Eve Online. Your character is specialized, so you have to collaborate and build a political and economic system to stop a meteor from crashing on your planet! It turns out that this simple formula is an extremely fertile ground to study all kinds of different economic systems, and understand what works and doesn’t about capitalism."

https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/
https://yo252yo.wordpress.com/2022/02/18/minecraft-the-metaworld/

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Conversations: Calendars and Eco

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We prepare for the revolution and try to imagine what an ideal week reimagined from scratch would be like.We try to look rationally at periodicity and divisions of time and their history, but that only brings us so far.We agree that what really matters is the day-to-day feel, so we try to gauge what the perfect balance of productivity and rest would be. Of course, we want our solution to resist the age of automation, and even extend to a post-scarcity era!Fortunately, Yoann has been working for himself for a year, and has had time to experiment with his schedule. Let&#39;s see what we can learn from that! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_Beijing" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_Beijing</a> Join us on: <a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com </a>@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

We prepare for the revolution and try to imagine what an ideal week reimagined from scratch would be like.
We try to look rationally at periodicity and divisions of time and their history, but that only brings us so far.
We agree that what really matters is the day-to-day feel, so we try to gauge what the perfect balance of productivity and rest would be. Of course, we want our solution to resist the age of automation, and even extend to a post-scarcity era!
Fortunately, Yoann has been working for himself for a year, and has had time to experiment with his schedule. Let's see what we can learn from that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_Beijing

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What is the best week?

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We look back on last episode&#39;s dive into the field of Japanese psychoanalysis, and discuss what we missed. In particular, we tackle the concepts of Lacanian&#39;s Lalangue, the Big Other, and dreams! We also discuss the castration tale of Sada, and Luke Ogasawara hypothesis that Japanese people are either paranoid or pervert. Quite a lot of risque topics :) We end by casually talking about Yoann&#39;s recurring nightmares about Japanese arcade games...Join us on:<a href="notdailypodcast.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a>@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

We look back on last episode's dive into the field of Japanese psychoanalysis, and discuss what we missed. In particular, we tackle the concepts of Lacanian's Lalangue, the Big Other, and dreams! We also discuss the castration tale of Sada, and Luke Ogasawara hypothesis that Japanese people are either paranoid or pervert. Quite a lot of risque topics :)



We end by casually talking about Yoann's recurring nightmares about Japanese arcade games...Join us on:

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Conversations: Japanese psychology and nightmares

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We&#39;ve been preparing this episode for quite a while and this time we have sources! We confront our knowledge of Japanese language and lacanian psychoanalysis to try and understand the Japanese psyche! We start off by Lacan&#39;s famous statements about the fact that Japanese people have no need for psychoanalysis. We&#39;ll see what he was talking about through a brief history of the incredible chaotic mess that is the Japanese language. Did he know it well enough? In any case, we felt it was worth widening the scope! From language, we move to the construction of identity in Japanese culture, but also to Buddhism and Sartre, to finish on the Japanese psychoanalytical concept of Amae. Can we find anything here to cure the existential angst that comes from being an isolated lacking self? Or is this just inviting more problems?Introduction of the Japan Psychoanalytic Society<a href="https://www.ipa.world/IPA/en/Societies/societies_focus/jps.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.ipa.world/IPA/en/Societies/societies_focus/jps.aspx</a> FREUD, LACAN AND JAPANKazushige Shingu<a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?cd=2&ct=clnk&gl=fr&hl=en&q=cache%3A3tzbPiuLr8kJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fthediscourseunit.files.wordpress.com%2F2016%2F05%2Fshingu_mpm_paper.doc+" rel="nofollow">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3tzbPiuLr8kJ:https://thediscourseunit.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/shingu_mpm_paper.doc+&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=fr</a> Why Lacan says : “no one who dwells in the Japanese language has a need to be psychoanalysed”Luke S. Ogasawara<a href="http://ogswrs.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-lacan-says-no-one-who-dwells-in.html" rel="nofollow">http://ogswrs.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-lacan-says-no-one-who-dwells-in.html</a> The Japanese subject and the unconsciousP-J Van Haecke<a href="https://psychocinematography.com/2019/09/24/the-japanese-subject-and-the-unconscious-part-1/" rel="nofollow">https://psychocinematography.com/2019/09/24/the-japanese-subject-and-the-unconscious-part-1/</a> February 2016 Psychoanalytic InquiryTakeo Doi<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295677377_Chapter_1_Psychoanalysis_and_the_Japanese_Personality_Chapter_2_Psychoanalysis_and_Western_Man_Chapter_3_Amae_and_Transference-Love_Chapter_4_Heeding_the_Vocabulary_of_Another_Culture_Psychoanalysis_i" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295677377_Chapter_1_Psychoanalysis_and_the_Japanese_Personality_Chapter_2_Psychoanalysis_and_Western_Man_Chapter_3_Amae_and_Transference-Love_Chapter_4_Heeding_the_Vocabulary_of_Another_Culture_Psychoanalysis_i</a> Join us on:<a href="notdailypodcast.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a>@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

We've been preparing this episode for quite a while and this time we have sources! We confront our knowledge of Japanese language and lacanian psychoanalysis to try and understand the Japanese psyche!



We start off by Lacan's famous statements about the fact that Japanese people have no need for psychoanalysis. We'll see what he was talking about through a brief history of the incredible chaotic mess that is the Japanese language. Did he know it well enough?



In any case, we felt it was worth widening the scope! From language, we move to the construction of identity in Japanese culture, but also to Buddhism and Sartre, to finish on the Japanese psychoanalytical concept of Amae.



Can we find anything here to cure the existential angst that comes from being an isolated lacking self? Or is this just inviting more problems?Introduction of the Japan Psychoanalytic Society

https://www.ipa.world/IPA/en/Societies/societies_focus/jps.aspx



FREUD, LACAN AND JAPAN

Kazushige Shingu

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3tzbPiuLr8kJ:https://thediscourseunit.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/shingu_mpm_paper.doc+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=fr



Why Lacan says : “no one who dwells in the Japanese language has a need to be psychoanalysed”

Luke S. Ogasawara

http://ogswrs.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-lacan-says-no-one-who-dwells-in.html



The Japanese subject and the unconscious

P-J Van Haecke

https://psychocinematography.com/2019/09/24/the-japanese-subject-and-the-unconscious-part-1/



February 2016 Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Takeo Doi

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295677377_Chapter_1_Psychoanalysis_and_the_Japanese_Personality_Chapter_2_Psychoanalysis_and_Western_Man_Chapter_3_Amae_and_Transference-Love_Chapter_4_Heeding_the_Vocabulary_of_Another_Culture_Psychoanalysis_i



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Can Japanese psychoanalysis cure us all?

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Welcome back to the conversation! This time, we didn&#39;t have many listeners&#39; messages, but we know why that is! We come back to our adventure on twitter hacking, by first wondering about the position of twitter in the ever changing landscape of technology with the good old question: was it better in the past?We then move to data science, wondering how many data points you need to draw meaningful conclusions from all the stuff we&#39;ve been trying out.Once we get our metrics down, it&#39;s time for optimization! We present a guaranteed way to get a few followers every day by following people on threads you&#39;re interested in, But which hashtag/keyword/user has the best follow back rate?Finally, we dissect our twitter analytics to find out what makes the most successful tweet on the platform: what kind of words and topics give you the most reach or engagement? We have all the answers (on our very small sample size XD). Join us on: <a href="notdailypodcast.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a>@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

Welcome back to the conversation! This time, we didn't have many listeners' messages, but we know why that is! 
We come back to our adventure on twitter hacking, by first wondering about the position of twitter in the ever changing landscape of technology with the good old question: was it better in the past?
We then move to data science, wondering how many data points you need to draw meaningful conclusions from all the stuff we've been trying out.
Once we get our metrics down, it's time for optimization! We present a guaranteed way to get a few followers every day by following people on threads you're interested in, But which hashtag/keyword/user has the best follow back rate?
Finally, we dissect our twitter analytics to find out what makes the most successful tweet on the platform: what kind of words and topics give you the most reach or engagement? We have all the answers (on our very small sample size XD).

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Conversations: How I cheated at twitter.

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In this episode, we open the doors to the behind the scenes of podcast production. We disclose without taboo or secret everything about how we measure our number of listeners and how trustworthy those tools are. But …we also talk money!We decided to do a little contest: with the same amount of money dedicated to advertising, we competed to see who could make the best ad campaign. Of course, we each tried a bunch of different things, but we both centered our attempts around twitter.What can you buy on twitter? How much does it get you? And most importantly, which is the best approach: the demographics based targeting of Vlad or the pseudo inflammatory rhetoric of /Yoann/? The answer will surprise you! Join us on: <a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a>@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

In this episode, we open the doors to the behind the scenes of podcast production. We disclose without taboo or secret everything about how we measure our number of listeners and how trustworthy those tools are. But …we also talk money!
We decided to do a little contest: with the same amount of money dedicated to advertising, we competed to see who could make the best ad campaign. Of course, we each tried a bunch of different things, but we both centered our attempts around twitter.
What can you buy on twitter? How much does it get you? And most importantly, which is the best approach: the demographics based targeting of Vlad or the pseudo inflammatory rhetoric of /Yoann/? The answer will surprise you!

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How to use data science and hack twitter for maximal engagement?

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In this informal episode, we continue talking with our good friend Geraldine who shares her experience of synesthesia, telling us what it is like to see letters as colors!Then we talk a bit about brain plasticity and memory encoding, trying to take a very pragmatic approach and giving you tips to probe your own brain! Are memories always pictorial? Can you imagine something that you&#39;ve never experienced in the past? Geraldine helps us by bringing her knowledge about Hobbes to the table!Finally, we come back to the framework to define your mental abilities, and we try to explicit it and complete it with one of the most important and fascinating aspects: blurriness vs determination of perceptions. When you gain expertise, what is happening in your brain ?!? Test your implicit bias here:https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ Join us on:notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

In this informal episode, we continue talking with our good friend Geraldine who shares her experience of synesthesia, telling us what it is like to see letters as colors!

Then we talk a bit about brain plasticity and memory encoding, trying to take a very pragmatic approach and giving you tips to probe your own brain! Are memories always pictorial? Can you imagine something that you've never experienced in the past? Geraldine helps us by bringing her knowledge about Hobbes to the table!

Finally, we come back to the framework to define your mental abilities, and we try to explicit it and complete it with one of the most important and fascinating aspects: blurriness vs determination of perceptions. When you gain expertise, what is happening in your brain ?!?



Test your implicit bias here:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/



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Conversations: Synesthesia and brain plasticity

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There’s a lot of different ways for imagination to work. Some people can imagine clear pictures, while some others can’t. Vlad recently switched from one group to the other.To understand what happened, we dive into an investigation where we’re joined by our good friend Geraldine, a researcher in philosophy of science.We analyze his transformation, wondering whether he unlocked a new meta-cognitive capability or if he just developed new awareness of existing processes, or what other senses might be affected…In the end, we try to figure out some sort of methodology to help anyone unlock new abilities of their brains, be it new kinds of qualia, experiences or perception… Join us on: <a href="notdailypodcast.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a>@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

There’s a lot of different ways for imagination to work. Some people can imagine clear pictures, while some others can’t. Vlad recently switched from one group to the other.
To understand what happened, we dive into an investigation where we’re joined by our good friend Geraldine, a researcher in philosophy of science.
We analyze his transformation, wondering whether he unlocked a new meta-cognitive capability or if he just developed new awareness of existing processes, or what other senses might be affected…
In the end, we try to figure out some sort of methodology to help anyone unlock new abilities of their brains, be it new kinds of qualia, experiences or perception…

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How to unlock new abilities in your brain?

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We respond to listener&#39;s comments about the previous episode: we discuss the most recent project of artist Sam Lavigne, and catch up on what we missed about special attacks in mangas.  We go over legendary swords to try and understand why some objects get special names, and invoke Baudrillard to wonder if there is such a thing as a single object anymore. We discuss differences between spoken and written word, and parallels between anime special techniques and sports. In the second half, the discussion leads us to competitive games where you program robots to fight each other, and how they helped Yoann change his perspective on machine learning. Will it be enough to convince Vlad that the black box neural networks can be cute? Sam Lavigne&#39;s latest project: <a href="https://www.holo.mg/stream/tega-brain-sam-lavigne-synthetic-messenger-climate-news/" rel="nofollow">https://www.holo.mg/stream/tega-brain-sam-lavigne-synthetic-messenger-climate-news/</a>Players screams in tennis: <a href="https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sports/tennis/roland-garros/roland-garros-mais-pourquoi-les-joueurs-de-tennis-crient-ils_2224537.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sports/tennis/roland-garros/roland-garros-mais-pourquoi-les-joueurs-de-tennis-crient-ils_2224537.html</a> Join us on: <a href="notdailypodcast.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a>@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

We respond to listener's comments about the previous episode: we discuss the most recent project of artist Sam Lavigne, and catch up on what we missed about special attacks in mangas. 



We go over legendary swords to try and understand why some objects get special names, and invoke Baudrillard to wonder if there is such a thing as a single object anymore. We discuss differences between spoken and written word, and parallels between anime special techniques and sports.



In the second half, the discussion leads us to competitive games where you program robots to fight each other, and how they helped Yoann change his perspective on machine learning. Will it be enough to convince Vlad that the black box neural networks can be cute?



Sam Lavigne's latest project: https://www.holo.mg/stream/tega-brain-sam-lavigne-synthetic-messenger-climate-news/

Players screams in tennis: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sports/tennis/roland-garros/roland-garros-mais-pourquoi-les-joueurs-de-tennis-crient-ils_2224537.html



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Conversations: I changed my mind about machine learning

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From Naruto&#39;s Rasengan to Dragon Ball&#39;s Kamehameha, attack names are an iconic part of mangas and animes (especially shounen). So much so that they appear in stories about food or sports. But why? Where do they come from? What are they for? And why on earth do they need to be yelled? Our journey through these questions takes us through different perspectives: we consider titles and annotations that imbue semantic in art, the difference between mangas and western comics, the parallels with spells in magic, the history of battlecries, the esoteric concept of the true name of things, doxxing influencers... We spend quite a while wondering about the power of words in themselves, and how they shape your reality. But it truly turns crazy when we bring up psychoanalysis. Join us on: notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

From Naruto's Rasengan to Dragon Ball's Kamehameha, attack names are an iconic part of mangas and animes (especially shounen). So much so that they appear in stories about food or sports. But why? Where do they come from? What are they for? And why on earth do they need to be yelled?

Our journey through these questions takes us through different perspectives: we consider titles and annotations that imbue semantic in art, the difference between mangas and western comics, the parallels with spells in magic, the history of battlecries, the esoteric concept of the true name of things, doxxing influencers...

We spend quite a while wondering about the power of words in themselves, and how they shape your reality. But it truly turns crazy when we bring up psychoanalysis.

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Why do manga characters scream the name of their attacks?

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In this episode of conversations, we followup on homestuck^2 by seeing how the new work from Andrew Hussie, Psycholonials, adds another layer of metanarrative on this already pretty big cake ^^ We then revisit the question of contemporary pantheon, trying to give more concrete examples and deciding who to put in between Obi Wan Kenobi, Dumbledore, Tiger Woods... We also discuss a bit our true gods, our values (pure ideology, snif snif). Have we became worshippers of health? Or rather wellbeing? It seems to all point back to the worship of happiness and the worship of money! In the second part, we dive into the work of contemporary computational artist Sam Lavigne, highlighting a few of our favorite works. Check the links below for their direct page :) A (not) brief history of Homestuck: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohFyOjfcLWQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohFyOjfcLWQ</a> Psycholonials: <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1529810/Psycholonials/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/1529810/Psycholonials/</a> Sam Lavigne: <a href="https://lav.io/" rel="nofollow">https://lav.io/</a><a href="https://lav.io/projects/big-data-pawn-shop/" rel="nofollow">https://lav.io/projects/big-data-pawn-shop/</a><a href="https://lav.io/projects/street-views/" rel="nofollow">https://lav.io/projects/street-views/</a><a href="https://lav.io/projects/white-collar-crime-risk-zones/" rel="nofollow">https://lav.io/projects/white-collar-crime-risk-zones/</a><a href="https://lav.io/projects/new-york-apartment/" rel="nofollow">https://lav.io/projects/new-york-apartment/</a><a href="https://lav.io/projects/occupied-bnb/" rel="nofollow">https://lav.io/projects/occupied-bnb/</a> Join us on: notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

In this episode of conversations, we followup on homestuck^2 by seeing how the new work from Andrew Hussie, Psycholonials, adds another layer of metanarrative on this already pretty big cake ^^



We then revisit the question of contemporary pantheon, trying to give more concrete examples and deciding who to put in between Obi Wan Kenobi, Dumbledore, Tiger Woods... We also discuss a bit our true gods, our values (pure ideology, snif snif). Have we became worshippers of health? Or rather wellbeing? It seems to all point back to the worship of happiness and the worship of money!



In the second part, we dive into the work of contemporary computational artist Sam Lavigne, highlighting a few of our favorite works. Check the links below for their direct page :)

A (not) brief history of Homestuck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohFyOjfcLWQ

Psycholonials: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1529810/Psycholonials/


Sam Lavigne: https://lav.io/
https://lav.io/projects/big-data-pawn-shop/
https://lav.io/projects/street-views/
https://lav.io/projects/white-collar-crime-risk-zones/
https://lav.io/projects/new-york-apartment/
https://lav.io/projects/occupied-bnb/



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Conversations: The work of Sam Lavigne

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The premise of the episode is simple: is there anything in our current life that could be considered as the evolution of the rich pantheons and mythologies that the greek and roman people had. We expected to fight about who to include or not, but the discussion actually went straight to “What is a god actually?” and we revisit how pantheons evolved from polytheism, to monotheism, to humanism to end up with cult of personality or companies (dare I say capitalism?). In a second time, we dove into other conceptualizations of the question, seeing gods as shared cultural symbols/values, or in a functional way as object of worship.  All things considered, it feels like we’re just scratching the surface, so please help us and tell us what you think is the pantheon of current times! ---Join us on: notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

The premise of the episode is simple: is there anything in our current life that could be considered as the evolution of the rich pantheons and mythologies that the greek and roman people had.

We expected to fight about who to include or not, but the discussion actually went straight to “What is a god actually?” and we revisit how pantheons evolved from polytheism, to monotheism, to humanism to end up with cult of personality or companies (dare I say capitalism?).

In a second time, we dove into other conceptualizations of the question, seeing gods as shared cultural symbols/values, or in a functional way as object of worship. 

All things considered, it feels like we’re just scratching the surface, so please help us and tell us what you think is the pantheon of current times!

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What does a modern pantheon look like?

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This is our second episode of conversations, and we start by explaining the why and how of this change, before following up on previous episodes: We come back on the difference between cats and dogs highlighted in telephone drawing games, before coming back to NFT. The fact that some NFT have dead links already makes us wonder if it&#39;s really going to keep value, and what is the role of the auctioneer here. We still can&#39;t pinpoint who exactly prophesied the final form of capitalism with the purely virtual speculative commodity (Zizek? Debord? Marx? Help me!) but that doesn&#39;t stop us from trying to understand if NFT are like a receipt or like an autograph. We also discover that NFTs may be the big crunch to Plato&#39;s concept-based cosmogenesis... Speaking of cosmogenesis, we take a brief dive in the history of Homestuck to introduce Homestuck^2, and see what it says about meta-narrative and death of the author, and whether we can compare it to other works in a spoiler-free way. Homestuck: <a href="https://www.homestuck.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.homestuck.com/</a>Homestuck^2:<a href="https://www.homestuck2.com/" rel="nofollow"> </a><a href="https://www.homestuck2.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.homestuck2.com</a>/ Dog breeds look so different but cats don&#39;t: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mln4PZDY_RY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mln4PZDY</a>_RY

This is our second episode of conversations, and we start by explaining the why and how of this change, before following up on previous episodes:



We come back on the difference between cats and dogs highlighted in telephone drawing games, before coming back to NFT.



The fact that some NFT have dead links already makes us wonder if it's really going to keep value, and what is the role of the auctioneer here. We still can't pinpoint who exactly prophesied the final form of capitalism with the purely virtual speculative commodity (Zizek? Debord? Marx? Help me!) but that doesn't stop us from trying to understand if NFT are like a receipt or like an autograph. We also discover that NFTs may be the big crunch to Plato's concept-based cosmogenesis...



Speaking of cosmogenesis, we take a brief dive in the history of Homestuck to introduce Homestuck^2, and see what it says about meta-narrative and death of the author, and whether we can compare it to other works in a spoiler-free way.



Conversations: Let me tell you about Homestuck^2

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This is our first episode where we deep dive into one serious topic, and what better choice than the NFTs that everyone is talking about! We briefly explain what NFTs are, and take case study to figure out what it is that people are buying. If you don&#39;t have any right on the digital art that the NFT represents, what on earth are you getting for your money? What are the implications for the notion of money? for the notion of things even? Is NFT really helpful for artists? How is it different from a certificate of authenticity? Would it still be useful in a utopian money-less society? Or is it just like bitcoin? And finally, does it create the new building blocks for a new ontological reality? All of this and more in this episode! Episode 9 where we talk about conceptual art: <a href="https://redcircle.com/shows/not-daily-podcast/episodes/56be5ac5-ca5d-4373-b61b-dd91a99c381d" rel="nofollow">https://redcircle.com/shows/not-daily-podcast/episodes/56be5ac5-ca5d-4373-b61b-dd91a99c381d</a> ThoughtSlime excellent video about NFT: <a href="https://youtu.be/AFvBCvCl4sk" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/AFvBCvCl4sk</a> Join us on:notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

This is our first episode where we deep dive into one serious topic, and what better choice than the NFTs that everyone is talking about!



We briefly explain what NFTs are, and take case study to figure out what it is that people are buying. If you don't have any right on the digital art that the NFT represents, what on earth are you getting for your money? What are the implications for the notion of money? for the notion of things even?



Is NFT really helpful for artists? How is it different from a certificate of authenticity? Would it still be useful in a utopian money-less society? Or is it just like bitcoin?



And finally, does it create the new building blocks for a new ontological reality?



All of this and more in this episode!



Episode 9 where we talk about conceptual art: https://redcircle.com/shows/not-daily-podcast/episodes/56be5ac5-ca5d-4373-b61b-dd91a99c381d



ThoughtSlime excellent video about NFT: https://youtu.be/AFvBCvCl4sk





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Does NFT create a new ontological reality?

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We&#39;re trying something new with our podcast: to keep the episodes more focused, we&#39;ll release the conversational part where we answer to the listeners, address followups, and discuss less heavy questions separate from our main episodes!This is the first of such episodes, where we discuss everything we missed in last episode about the perfect reading corner, namely UV lights, reading rhythm, and audio ambiance.After that, we move on to chit chat about a game that has become more popular during lockdown: Gartic phone, a game where people pass along an idea by drawing or describing a drawing in succession. This method of information propagation is actually pretty interesting, because some concepts are way more stable than others, and they are not the ones you may think of at first. We discuss these stable concepts and attractor points while pulling from Plato or Jung, and compare this experience to latent states of machine learning/neural network algorithms. The game: <a href="http://garticphone.com/" rel="nofollow">http://garticphone.com/</a>Tom White, an artist making paintings based on machine learning model latent spaces: <a href="https://drib.net/" rel="nofollow">https://drib.net/</a> Join us on:notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

We're trying something new with our podcast: to keep the episodes more focused, we'll release the conversational part where we answer to the listeners, address followups, and discuss less heavy questions separate from our main episodes!

This is the first of such episodes, where we discuss everything we missed in last episode about the perfect reading corner, namely UV lights, reading rythm, and audio ambiance.

After that, we move on to chit chat about a game that has become more popular during lockdown: Garticphone, a game where people pass along an idea by drawing or describing a drawing in succession. This method of information propagation is actually pretty interesting, because some concepts are way more stable than others, and they are not the ones you may think of at first. We discuss these stable concepts and attractor points while pulling from Plato or Jung, and compare this experience to latent states of machine learning/neural network algorithms.



The game: http://garticphone.com/

Tom White, an artist making paintings based on machine learning model latent spaces: https://drib.net/



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Conversations: I became an Ai in a telephone game

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We discover that at the end of his life, Stanley Milgram was working on a little known Cyranoid experiment. He showed that if you put a child into an adult body, nobody will notice something is off. In the main part, we try to make the perfect environment to read more. We briefly go over pretty basic productivity tips (making habits, compartmentalization) before diving in our usual craziness featuring the tinderization of storytelling, reading in VR, the ease of entry vs compartmentalization trade-of, hacking your brain worse tendencies for your desires ... We talk a great deal about reading on phones and how to make it work, and how closeness, nature, bookshelves, light or simplicity are essential elements to consider when making a reading nook. AfterDinnerConversation podcast episode: <a href="https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/podcast/episode-11-rainbow-people-of-the-glittering-glade" rel="nofollow">https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/podcast/episode-11-rainbow-people-of-the-glittering-glade</a> Milgram&#39;s cyranoids paper: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265345570_Revisiting_Milgram's_Cyranoid_Method_Experimenting_With_Hybrid_Human_Agents" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265345570_Revisiting_Milgram&#39;s_Cyranoid_Method_Experimenting_With_Hybrid_Human_Agents</a> Episode 11, in which we discuss the relation between fashion, trends and uniformization<a href="https://redcircle.com/shows/not-daily-podcast/episodes/763ecaa9-8e0b-45e6-8332-220726b42eef" rel="nofollow">: https://redcircle.com/shows/not-daily-podcast/episodes/763ecaa9-8e0b-45e6-8332-220726b42e</a>ef Ebook /vs/ Book Article : Not found Join us on:notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

We discover that at the end of his life, Stanley Milgram was working on a little known Cyranoid experiment. He showed that if you put a child into an adult body, nobody will notice something is off.



In the main part, we try to make the perfect environment to read more. We briefly go over pretty basic productivity tips (making habits, compartmentalization) before diving in our usual craziness featuring the tinderization of storytelling, reading in VR, the ease of entry vs compartmentalization trade-of, hacking your brain worse tendencies for your desires ... We talk a great deal about reading on phones and how to make it work, and how closeness, nature, bookshelves, light or simplicity are essential elements to consider when making a reading nook.



AfterDinnerConversation podcast episode: https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/podcast/episode-11-rainbow-people-of-the-glittering-glade



Milgram's cyranoids paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265345570_Revisiting_Milgram's_Cyranoid_Method_Experimenting_With_Hybrid_Human_Agents



Episode 11, in which we discuss the relation between fashion, trends and uniformization: https://redcircle.com/shows/not-daily-podcast/episodes/763ecaa9-8e0b-45e6-8332-220726b42eef



Ebook /vs/ Book Article : Not found



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Cyranoids and How to make the perfect reading environment?

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We discover quantum time locks and Twisted Wonderland.We then discuss Vlad&#39;s holiday project, a minimalist website to store his short stories, and move on to discussing a magazine Yoann discovered recently which focuses on philosophical short stories. As an example, we comment briefly the story “Rainbow People Of The Glittering Glade”.Finally, we get into the holiday spirit by celebrating the true meaning of Christmas: purchases. But is buying something the ultimate form of expression of your free will? Is money working as an objective shared scale of value, to help your decision making? Does the reversibility of purchases matter at all here? Or are too many forces and social coercion at play to be able to talk of &#34;decision&#34; ? What about &#34;impulse shopping&#34; or marketing? What would Sartre think of your shopping list? What do you think about it? <a href="https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/</a><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k2iLIgJy0lrASPm4kD0-M6h0VnOWMN-y/view" rel="nofollow">The story “Rainbow People Of The Glittering Glade”</a> Join us on: <a href="notdailypodcast.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a>@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

We discover quantum time locks and Twisted Wonderland.

We then discuss Vlad's holiday project, a minimalist website to store his short stories, and move on to discussing a magazine Yoann discovered recently which focuses on philosophical short stories. As an example, we comment briefly the story “Rainbow People Of The Glittering Glade”.

Finally, we get into the holiday spirit by celebrating the true meaning of Christmas: purchases. But is buying something the ultimate form of expression of your free will? Is money working as an objective shared scale of value, to help your decision making? Does the reversibility of purchases matter at all here? Or are too many forces and social coercion at play to be able to talk of "decision" ? 

What about "impulse shopping" or marketing? What would Sartre think of your shopping list? What do you think about it?

AfterDinnerConversation and Are purchases the ultimate form of human free will ?

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We reflect on the possibility that the economy is so important to some people because it fills in for the symbolic dimension of meaning that is lacking from the dystopias we discussed last time.We talk a bit about a message from the past that Vlad received, and how to make a good time capsule for your future self.This time, our main section is about villains and propaganda. We talk a lot about Disney movies in general and Aladdin in particular to try and understand what it means to be a villain, cinematographically and semantically. In particular, we discuss how agency and beauty fit in the picture.We conclude by wondering whether such techniques can be used to frame anything or anyone as a villain, and to manipulate public acceptance of anything. What can we do about this? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=49s&v=POpD1Es6kq8" rel="nofollow">Nietzsche, Trump, &amp; Brexit by Ken Gemes</a> Join us on: notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcastnotdailypodcast@gmail.com

Time capsules and What makes a villain?

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We discuss with listeners whether an AI has imagination, and how it is seen by the general public.We present new tools developped by Yoann to learn Japanese and compare the usage of Kanjis and Chinese characters.For the main question of this episode, we try to assess whether or not there has been an ongoing anti-rationality vibe in our media and myths. It brings us to a lot of places, assessing the relationship between empathy and rationality, or even its place in storytelling: is rationality the enemy of drama and therefore not a good story driver? Or is it the core of any character growth? Is an excess of rationality why totalitarians dystopia fail, or is it just that they&#39;re missing key components of the human nature in their application of rationality... Is this all a matter of imperfect information? Or is it a warped rejection of determinism from the very depths of human nature?Join us on:notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcast<a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

We discuss tools to learn Japanese kanji, before questioning the portrayal of rationality in our media and fictions, and its implications.

Kanjis and is there an anti-rationality propaganda?

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Listen to the full interview: Listen: <a href="http://163.172.97.59/ndp/ndp17-bonus-fullinterview.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://163.172.97.59/ndp/ndp17-bonus-fullinterview.mp3</a>We first revisit what your storage system says about you to bring up the social aspects that we didn&#39;t study last time.But the core of this episode is the reason why it took us a while to make it: we tried to interview an AI powered by GPT-3, the latest machine learning framework from OpenAI. You can listen to the raw interview, but there&#39;s a lot of ambiguity between what humans produced and what AI produced, and even though this ambiguity is a pretty cool piece of performative art, it may not be the best podcast experience :)So in this episode, we debrief this interview and share the best highlights from it: what is GPT-3 good at? bad at? Is it intelligent? Is it conscious? What does any of these words even mean? What&#39;s the fundamental difference between its &#34;brain&#34; and ours? Can it replace us? Could it have written a better description?All this and much more in an exclusive interview of our new AI overlords.Join us on:notdailypodcast.com@NotDailyPodcast<a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

In this episode, we analyze the machine learning new phenomenon GPT-3 by interviewing it! We gave the AI the reins of this podcast to see if it produces better content than us.

GPT3's artificial intelligence and can it host a podcast?

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Going back over our last episode, we wonder if we spend too long talking about main characters, as opposed to background NPCs, and then ask the real question: what is the main storyline of the real world?We follow that up with Bioshock: it is a cult classic that we both didn’t try until fairly recently, and even though this genre of games doesn’t suit either of us, there’s still plenty to be said about the Bioshock universe and the philosopher that inspired it.Finally, we go back to our tech/productivity side, continuing in a way the discussion from episode 6. Seeing that operating systems have lately abstracted the storage away from the user, is it the death of the file system? It seems that retrieval within a huge blob is more suited for the human brain, and successes like smartphones or Gmail seem to lean that way. But is there no redeeming qualities to a structured file system? Are we doomed to let all our data sit in a huge mix of everything, or is there still hope for the file-sorting lovers? Join us on:<a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/notdailypodcast" rel="nofollow">@NotDailyPodcast</a><a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

Long after the hype, we discuss Bioshock and its inspirations from Ayn Rand. We then move to reflections about data storage and file systems: since the iPhone came along, we rely more and more on systems that abstract storage, but is this necessarily a good thing?

Bioshock and Is a post-files world inevitable?

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We revisit our last episode’s conclusions: turns out that making an MMORPG is in fact a pretty arduous task, but maybe there’s interesting things we can still look forward to instead.We then talk about recent recurring dreams about corpses and highschool diplomas, and how their oddities let us experience different parts of the brain.Finally, we tackle a question that mixes game design and cognitive psychology: what creates empathy towards some NPCs. We examine examples like Undertale, Pokemon, Animal Crossing or Watchdogs, to understand some important factors like shared experiences, free will and anthropomorphism. We end up analyzing the difference between cinematographic games and choice-driven gameplay experiences to understand how they create different caring vectors. Join us on:<a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/notdailypodcast" rel="nofollow">@NotDailyPodcast</a><a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

We explore how recurring dreams reveal the structure of the brain. Then we borrow examples from Undertale, Animal Crossing and Watchdogs to ask “Is your favorite character worth more than 10 gold?”

Corpse Dream and Why would you care about an NPC?

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We review the comments for the counting base system: even though it was our longest episode yet, there is a lot that we still missed! It leaves us little time to talk about Masaaki Yuasa’s “Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!” and how it influenced the making of this podcast!For the main topic, when we talked about No Man Sky a few months ago, we decided to dive deeper into why we don’t see more MMORPGs lately. We explore a wide range of reasons, from game design to supporting technology, passing obviously by the economic aspect (did free to play and loot boxes really kill subscriptions?), but also the societal and psychological aspects (after all, the internet, the world and people have changed a lot since WoW first came out). Shownotes:Our No Man Sky episode:<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/NotDailyPodcast/comments/ewdon1/ndp_11_no_man_sky_and_is_material_design_the_end/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/NotDailyPodcast/comments/ewdon1/ndp_11_no_man_sky_and_is_material_design_the_end/</a>Interesting stuff we didn’t tackle in the episode: what numbers do you pick within your base:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary</a>Eizouken anime:<a href="https://myanimelist.net/anime/39792/Eizouken_ni_wa_Te_wo_Dasu_na" rel="nofollow">https://myanimelist.net/anime/39792/Eizouken_ni_wa_Te_wo_Dasu_na</a>Amazing piece about how game designed changed from giving the illusion of a world to convenience:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxQRswLAmI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxQRswLAmI</a>Story telling in Fortnite:<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/14/20913541/fortnite-game-shutdown-black-hole-event-storytelling" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/14/20913541/fortnite-game-shutdown-black-hole-event-storytelling</a>Old Jesse Schell keynote about persistent worlds:<a href="https://vimeo.com/18407613" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/18407613</a>Cute video from Nerd Slayer about economics of MMORPG production:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLBMSoBdIzY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLBMSoBdIzY</a>Join us on:<a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/notdailypodcast" rel="nofollow">@NotDailyPodcast</a><a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

We review your comments about counting bases and briefly mention Eizouken before diving into a subject that makes both of us nostalgic: where did the MMORPG hype go?

Eizouken and Where did the MMORPG hype go?

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One of the most interesting things to come out of this pandemic is that it serves as a free global cognitive science experiment for everyone, so we discuss what we can conclude about habituation.In the main part, we discuss how we should celebrate the milestones of the podcast: using base 10 and celebrate “round numbers” seems so arbitrary... If we were to decide from scratch, could we choose a better base to count in without the bias of having 10 fingers? What even makes a good base? Come hear our argument and take part in the poll to decide how to number our episodes from now on :)Join us on:<a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/notdailypodcast" rel="nofollow">@NotDailyPodcast</a><a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

We talk about how fast humans get used to new circumstances before debating what is the best base to count in, if base 10 is too mainstream.

Habituation and What is the best base for counting?

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We can’t exactly not talk about the thing on everyone’s mind, can we… but can we put an original spin on it?Do not fear, though, we quickly move away from the grim reality to tackle a loosely defined topic drafted on Yoann’s notes: Are we approaching a Cultural Singularity? In the first part, we try to see if we could define it by looking at the layers of irony and self-awareness that riddle our communication in this post-truth era. In the second part, we dive into another approach, and see what we can infer from the technological singularity.Join us on:<a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/notdailypodcast" rel="nofollow">@NotDailyPodcast</a><a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

We talk about the thing that everyone is talking about before assessing the impact of the Singularity on Culture: What could a Cultural Singularity be? #tech #overthinking

You Know What and the Cultural Singularity?

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We first discuss how Banana on the Wall widened our understanding of performance art since we last talked about Banksy, and spend a bit of time exploring Yoann’s impressions of No Man Sky.We then turn to Material Design and its counterparts: recapping its history, we see that it’s definitely applying a scientific method to reverse engineer the human brain. Does this mean that it’s the Final Form of design? We try to answer this by thinking about the affordances of the medium that guide design evolution, and also by drawing a parallel with pop culture, a time-proven domain where we can clearly see generations as shared experiences.Join us on:<a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/notdailypodcast" rel="nofollow">@NotDailyPodcast</a><a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

We talk about Banana On The Wall and No Man Sky, before trying to understand if Material and Flat designs are fads or are reverse engineering the human brain in a deeper way? #tech #overthinking

No Man Sky and Is Material Design the end of design?

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In this episode, we spend a bit longer than usual discussing the latest TV show written by Russel T. Davies, “Years and Years”, and where we think it did great or fall short. In particular, we also wonder why science fiction seems so grim lately…But weirdly enough, our main topic of discussion about how theme parks are engineered and designed to be a bubble of happiness brings us back to the question of utopias and dystopias. What can this manufactured happiness teach us about our nature, and can it help with our daily lives?Join us on:<a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/notdailypodcast" rel="nofollow">@NotDailyPodcast</a><a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

We discuss Russel T Davies’ latest creation, Years and Years, and we explore what theme park design and engineering research can teach us about happiness? #overthinking #popculture

Years and Years and how happy is ‘the happiest place on earth’?

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We’re comparing Banksy’s work to Oobah Butler and Thierry Guetta, the star of the movie Exit Through the Gift Shop, and which of them pushes contemporary art to its limits.Then there’s a question I’ve long wanted to clarify: it’s super annoying to have a conversation with someone who has inconsistencies in their discourse, but is it really a problem in itself?To answer this, we’re examining how humans are inconsistent by nature, and logical consistency is an acquired skill that takes effort. We discover that it’s essentially the scientific method applied to discourse, and that it’s necessary for meaning to progress. So what can you do at personal level?Shownotes:The previous episode about Sarazanmai: <a href="http://163.172.97.59/ndp/ndp8-sarazanmai.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://163.172.97.59/ndp/ndp8-sarazanmai.mp3</a>An introduction to Slavoj Zizek: <a href="https://archive.org/details/2013ThePervertsGuideToIdeology" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/2013ThePervertsGuideToIdeology</a>Exit through the gift shop: <a href="http://www.banksyfilm.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.banksyfilm.com/</a>How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8</a>I faked an Art Gallery in London and sold my paintings<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHS2DUBP_W8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHS2DUBP_W8</a>Join us on:<a href="http://www.notdailypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/notdailypodcast" rel="nofollow">@NotDailyPodcast</a><a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

Discover Yoann’s reaction to learning more about Banksy, before moving on to a question that underlied many party discussions: is it ok to defend two contradicting things, and most importantly, why not? #overthinking

Banksy and What's wrong with a little self-contradiction?

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Vlad has a new cat, and it comes with a lot of new challenges, because Maine Coons are not really standard :sAfter this, we dive into the dauting task of analysing the symbolism of Kunihiko Ikuhara’s 2019 animated series “Sarazanmai”. You should definitely watch it before this episode! We try to make light of things like what “desire” or ㋐ mean, mostly adopting an approach following french philosophers Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Lacan to try and figure out what life lessons are under the insane amount of butts.But this is a very rich show, and there’s so much we didn’t have time to go into, so I hope we can continue this discussion! What did you think of our approach? Is there other points you’d like to add/counter on it? Or other completely different questions/topics/symbolisms you’d like to dig into? Do you have a theory about the meaning of the word Sarazanmai? We’re very curious to hear a wide range of analyses! Shownotes:The waifu vending machine: <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwaifulabs.com%2Fblog%2Fax&sa=D&ust=1569793878651000" rel="nofollow">https://waifulabs.com/blog/ax</a>Pictures of the new cat: <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fphotos.app.goo.gl%2FENjiLUjfH9b7z7H28&sa=D&ust=1569793878652000" rel="nofollow">https://photos.app.goo.gl/ENjiLUjfH9b7z7H28</a>Watch Sarazanmai (<a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmyanimelist.net%2Fanime%2F37426%2FSarazanmai&sa=D&ust=1569793878652000" rel="nofollow">https://myanimelist.net/anime/37426/Sarazanmai</a>) of course on the legal platform depending on where you are (crunchyroll, netflix, wakanim…) and check out the brain behind the work for similar experiences (<a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKunihiko_Ikuhara&sa=D&ust=1569793878652000" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunihiko_Ikuhara</a>)!Lacan 101 : <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fplato.stanford.edu%2Fentries%2Flacan%2F&sa=D&ust=1569793878653000" rel="nofollow">https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/</a>Join us on:<a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.notdailypodcast.com&sa=D&ust=1569793878654000" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast.com</a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fnotdailypodcast&sa=D&ust=1569793878654000" rel="nofollow">@NotDailyPodcast</a><a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>

Vlad introduces his new big cat and the problems of size, and then we tackle the japanese anime Sarazanmai and try to pierce the meaning of the symbolism this show is full of in light of Lacan and Sartre. #popculture #japanese

Big cats and What is the meaning of ㋐ in Sarazanmai?

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We&#39;re back after this little summer break with a slightly different format! We&#39;ve always thought of this podcast as a dialogue between us and you, so we&#39;re shooting for more interactivity! From now on, we&#39;re not recording in advance anymore, so that we can answer all the comments you leave us here, on <a href="https://twitter.com/notdailypodcast" rel="nofollow">twitter</a> or at <a href="mailto:notdailypodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">notdailypodcast@gmail.com</a>.This episode is mainly focused on addressing all the comments we&#39;ve received from episode 1 to 6 so we can start this format from a clean slate!But before that, Yoann introduces us to the GPT2 machine learning algorithm that he trained on a corpus of his writings. You can find all the details in <a href="https://yo252yo.wordpress.com/2019/07/24/playing-around-with-gpt2/" rel="nofollow">his blog post</a>, and Vlad&#39;s reactions in this episode! Feel free to try it out, it&#39;s very easy!And please let us know what you think of this new format, because it cannot function without you :) If you&#39;re trying out GPT2 in particular, share your experiments and thoughts, we&#39;re super curious!

After discussing training a machine learning algorithm on your personal data, we're back with a new format! We want to really open up the dialogue and interactivity, so we answer all your comments so far.

Machine Learning and What do we do with people's comments?

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It may be a bit late, but we wanted to reflect a bit on Black Mirror&#39;s interactive episode Bandersnatch, and try to see what it did well, what it did poorly, and why so many critics are negative about it.After the previous heavy episode, we are going into lighter territory by discussing the fundamentals of productivity and self organisation. With a focus on media consumption, we each detail how we&#39;re organizing everything we need to do/watch/read... We try to analyze the specter we&#39;re at both ends of, between Vlad&#39;s power-user use of Google Keep (and his memory ^^) and Yoann&#39;s numerous lists split in many Google Docs.What other systems did we miss? Did any of you figure out the magic weapon to solve all organizational TODOs? What&#39;s your product of choice?

Better late than never: we discuss Black Mirror's Bandersnatch and the basics of how we each manage our tasks and media. #productivity

Bandersnatch and How do you manage your TODOs?

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This time, we go deep into the rabbit hole!We casually try out our new mics before jumping to the meat of the reflection: natural selection is the survival of the fittest and it brought us creatures better and better adapted to their environment, but what is the next step? How does this translate to ideas (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme" rel="nofollow">memes</a>) which are following the same pattern? And what does this mean for the universe&#39;s trajectory as a whole?This episode frames the topic and throws the bases for the reflection. There is plenty more we want to expand on. But we would love to do this with your input! We hope we gave you something to think about, so let us know the fruits of your reflection: is there something we missed? What do you think warrants more analyses? And most importantly, do you concur with our points, or do you have a totally different view of what the development of the universe so far is leading us to? Do you side with the teleological view? Are we all just byproducts?0

We got new mics! We now tackle a pretty ambitious topic: if you look at it as a computational engine, can we draw any conclusions about where the universe is heading? #overthinking

Microphones and What does the universe optimize for?

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Hi! In this episode, Vlad comments on his new AI-driven cat toy. In the main part, we try to understand why there isn&#39;t an abundance of copycats following the success of Pokemon Go, since it would presumably bring a lot of cash. To do that, we come back to the root of its success: was it just the Pokemon brand? What even makes a good ARG? Are we lacking in technology? Or is player interaction doomed to fail? What is even the value of going outside?Do you have hypotheses we didn&#39;t mention? What&#39;s your dream ARG?

Vlad comments on his new AI-driven cat toy. In the main part, we try to understand why there isn't an abundance of copycats following the success of Pokemon Go, and what makes a good ARG. #tech #popculture

Cat Toys and Why is there no Pokemon Go copycat?

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Hello! This time, we discuss Terrace House (Opening New Doors) which Yoann finally watched following Vlad&#39;s recommendation. Its cringy moments lead us to consider this episode&#39;s topic: What exactly is cringe? Can it ever be good? If not, why is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cringe_comedy" rel="nofollow">cringe comedy</a> even a thing? Is The Room cringy? Why?Join us as we attempt to make sense of this fuzzy topic, and let us know what you think constitutes cringe!

We first discuss terrace house: how it's similar to Big Brother, and how cringy it can be, which leads us to discuss what is cringe, what's its valence, and go full circle by discussing The Room. #popculture #overthinking

Terrace House and What is the valence of cringe?

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Hello!Yoann introduces the new member of his hardware family, a Surface Go, and explains what it&#39;s good for and not good for. The conversation naturally shifts to the topic of USB C and the many emotions it inspires, from the excitement of having a standardized universal outlet to the frustrations that a cable trying to do it all inevitably creates.Which side are you on? How do you feel about USB C, or Surface Go?

As Yoann raves about his new Surface Go, we explore what is really promising and what really blows about USB C, our new connector overlord. #tech

Surface Go and What is wrong with USB C?

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Hello!In this first ever episode, Vlad explains us why he switched from Alexa to Google Home. And for the main part of the discussion, we tackle the question that anyone (^^) faced at some point in their life: &#34;what scale should I use to rate my ideas?&#34;. We&#39;ll dive into the difference between ranking and rating, elo systems for chess or go, that kind of things...Hopefully it&#39;ll help you organize anything you care about :)

After discussing Google Home, we tackle the question of "what rating system should one use" for ideas, tasks, etc... by revisiting what's used all around us. #productivity

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