Mysterious Universe

36.12 - MU Podcast - The Skill Trap | Outsourcing Ourselves

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Show Notes

Welcome back to MU! As AI and automation get better & better at doing our jobs, they may also be slowly doing away with the way humans have always learned to become good at them. With examples from robotic surgery, Michelin kitchens, warehouses, bomb disposal, banking, and more, our second installment of Matt Beane’s The Skill Code explores how we build real expertise, and how intelligent machines could either hollow that process out or help create an entirely new kind of apprenticeship.

Welcome to your Plus+ extension, and thank you all for joining us on Plus+! Buddhists believe that millions of super cool people reside in this underworld paradise called Agartha. Their daily lives and their destiny are directed by a wise, all-powerful ruler known as Rigden-jyepo, also known as the King of the World. Rigden-jyepo kicks it in Shamballah, the capital city of Agartha, which is allegedly accessed through many secret entrances from the surface world, found hidden within the towering monasteries of Tibet, guarded by jolly llamas sworn to protect the secrets of the underworld.

The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines

TDI Industries

This Hollow Earth: The Astounding Investigation Into the Lost World Beneath Our Planet's Surface

Nicholas Roerich’s artwork - Order of Rigden Jyepo

Shamballah by Nicholas Roerich -1930

Life and works of Alexander Csoma de Körös

Fundamental Principles of Vedanta

Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa

Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski

The Voynich Manuscript has a new interpretation

Hollow Earth, Hyperborea, Agartha, Shambhala

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