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    Rationally Speaking #233 - Clive Thompson on "The culture of coding, and how it’s changing the world"

    Rationally Speaking #233 - Clive Thompson on "The culture of coding, and how it’s changing the world"

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    Rationally Speaking #233 - Clive Thompson on "The culture of coding, and how it’s changing the world"

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    Length:
    58 minutes
    Released:
    May 13, 2019
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Technology writer Clive Thompson discusses his latest book, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. Topics Clive and Julia cover include:
    - Why coders love efficiency so much
    - Are there downsides to efficiency?
    - Do coders have particular blindspots when it comes to human nature?
    - What is a "10x Coder," and why do people disagree about whether they exist?
    - Does Clive still agree with his older book, "Smarter Than You Think," which argued that technology is making us smarter?
    Released:
    May 13, 2019
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.