AI: a pearl clutching panic fest, or are the robots really coming for our jobs?

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You might have noticed this episode is rather... long. But
it's  your last episode before February, 2023. so we 
figure you can digest this omnibus episodes in parts!

Look, there's a lot of Spider Talk in our catch up, so you might
want to skip it if you're an arachnophobe. There's some very
interesting questions from listeners in the Mailbag section
[22:54], which gives us the chance to drop the knowledge
on difficult publishing problems and how to tell someone they
look nice at work.

In our Work Problems segment [46:35] we talk about the new
wave of Generative AI tools about to 'disrupt' higher ed (or are
they?). You can follow along in the discussion guide we made for
this episode.

The reading section (1:44:00) has more podcasts than
actual reading and the two minute tip section (1:52:00)
returns to the problem of spiders via Obsidian back ups. Happy
Holidays everyone!

Stuff we mentioned:
Inger's mosquito death bio-chamber thingy
Huntsman Spider info (CW: spiders!)
Pre-order Inger and Simon's new book Be Visible or
Vanish at a cheapish price.
Thesiswhisperer pod cast channel
Secrets to winning at office politics
Chat GPT3 from OpenAIDiscussion Guide
for this episode on Google DocsChokepoint
Capitalism
Hard Fork


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