How About Tomorrow?
Tapas, Longer Lasting Flu, and AI as the Way to Keep Up With News
Mon, 24 Feb 2025
Is the flu lasting longer this year, why is it so hard to keep up with conspiracy theories, Dax has an AI based social news app idea, what is really quantum computing, and Adam's trying to sort out the crazy world.Links:Tomorrow Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory - YouTubeElon Musk’s startup rolls out new Grok-3 chatbot as AI competition intensifies | The GuardianpiccoloMicrosoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Breaks on AI Hype | GizmodoPowerful quantum computers in years not decades, says Microsoft | BBCSponsor: Terminal now offers a monthly box called Cron.Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at sliceoffalittlepieceofbacon@tomorrow.fm.Topics:(00:00) - Scan for the normal people (00:30) - Tapas and a nap (05:23) - Is the flu lasting longer? (09:10) - Keeping up with the conspiracy theories (14:46) - AI based newsfeed app? (19:12) - Satya Nadella Pumps the Breaks on AI Hype (30:02) - What about quantum computing? (34:42) - Adam's dessert: the world is crazy ★ Support this podcast ★
Chapter 1: What is the concept of 'Tapas and a Nap'?
I'm good. It's Friday, and we're trying to do a thing where we usually go out to dinner every Friday, but we're trying to switch it up and do lunch every Friday.
Oh, okay. Just you and Liz. A little Friday afternoon lunch.
A little siesta.
Oh, really? That's after lunch?
A siesta is a nap that people take after lunch.
Oh, that's the nap.
I think it was invented in Spain. Yes. And it's literally like a real thing. Like everything just shuts down for two hours.
Like the whole town just shuts down. That's so cool. I wish we did that. I mean, I can't really, I wouldn't want to take a nap, but it sounds fun.
I'm not someone that really gets sleepy after eating and like late afternoon, but so many people do that. I'm just convinced there's some biological thing where we're supposed to do that for the most part.
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Chapter 2: Why is the flu lasting longer this year?
Oh, gotcha. Do they like fried rice? No, that's Asian. Wild rice? What am I thinking about with rice and Spanish people?
Yeah, there's that famous dish with the seafood. I'm forgetting the term now.
It's probably something different because I didn't know there was seafood involved. There's a lot of seafood in Spanish food. Yeah, that makes sense.
Spain on the ocean.
Paella. Paella. No, never heard of it. Sounds awesome. Well, I don't like seafood, but there's rice. I like rice a lot. Yes, there's rice in it.
I forgot you don't eat meat for a second.
I do eat a lot of rice.
I love rice. So my favorite thing, I mean, Oh no, this isn't the thing I'm thinking of. Isn't, isn't, um, Hang on. I got to look this up because it's driving me crazy. Ceviche. I'm thinking of ceviche.
Ceviche.
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Chapter 3: How do conspiracy theories affect our understanding of events?
When COVID was really peaking, you know, when all the news reports were like, New York is the epicenter of COVID.
It is a disaster. Pop-up tents and morgues or whatever. Yeah.
I was like, I'm going for really nice walks every day because there's no traffic. Liz lost her sense of taste for two days and had no other symptoms at all.
Really? It was really weird. But she got the taste back because I've heard some people lose the taste forever, right? Yeah. Some people die forever.
because they can't taste the food.
No, no, like some people die and then they're dead forever from COVID. Yeah, okay. That also happens. You can lose your taste forever or your life forever.
You're right. You're right. COVID's not good. I agree. It's not controversial. Is it still, is it actually still active though?
Is there still COVID?
I think so. I think it's kind of like the flu now, you know? I also, like, this is also very stupid. I didn't put together that the flu and the Spanish flu are the same thing. And the reason we have the flu every year is because the Spanish flu happened. Wait, what was the Spanish flu? I don't know history that well. The Spanish flu was like the last big pandemic prior to COVID. Oh.
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Chapter 4: Can AI be the solution for staying updated with news?
It says the Wuhan coronavirus left.
Where did this virus come from?
Who knows?
Maybe we should check there first.
Yeah, the hard thing for me about these debates or about hot topics like that is I can't follow the discourse. I just can't get in the headspace of either side and I lose the arguments. I'm the same way with conspiracy theories. I can't ever keep track. Okay, so why do you think they did that? What was their motivation?
I can't keep it all straight in my head and then I just lose the train of thought and I'm out. It's like, I'm not smart enough to be a conspiracy theorist. I feel like you have to be pretty smart.
Well, it's funny you bring this up because I had this, I was doing a bunch of self-reflection yesterday and I had this thing I'm going to try where I'm interested in stuff. Like I'm interested in stuff that's going on in the world. Oh, okay. Yeah.
uh i'm sure you're interested in that too i'm sure most people are things have just gotten to a really bad place i think when you're trying to learn about the world because i feel this you have these two options right so yesterday i heard that there were some like explosions in in israel and i was curious okay what it what what's going on like is another attack
So your options are Google it and you land on like the worst written article ever where there's like the site is garbage. It doesn't load. The information you want is like one sentence and like... And then an ad and then... Yeah, it's just like... it's just so hard to parse it there.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of AI in managing news overload?
And then I'll realize, oh, I followed this person a month ago. And they're not explicitly doing anything wrong, but they're like... reposting stuff or like somehow injecting stuff into my feed that I, that's technically making me feel that way. And it always takes me a little while to notice. And when I noticed I like track down the source, okay, this is, this is what's going on.
This is why I'm feeling this way. And I'll like cut the source out. And then Jade made the point was like, yeah i bet that happens all the time due to some algorithm change that in this case is something i did i controlled it so i can undo it yeah but theoretically there's some algorithm change that could happen somewhere that now suddenly is like making me feel
a certain way that must happen all the time and it might be hard to to deal with so i think there's an opportunity to make some kind of product that i still want to take in information i still want to scroll i still want to like you know consume stuff that's going on like i'm not trying to cut all that out i know some people are that's not where i'm trying to go yeah but
give it to me through like this cold neutral ai that is pretty boring in a lot of ways run it through that and i can kind of see how that could be reliable can you just can you just ask an llm like or ask grock like give me the news like what's going on you can yeah it does like give you the top okay Yeah. So that's like a great starting point.
And I think that's what I'm going to try to like build some habits around. But I can see how there's some kind of opportunity for like a new kind of product that doesn't involve other people at all. It feels like social media. It feels like something. But yeah, it's not generated by other people.
But OK, now I have questions. Like, do you imagine this thing? like having comments that are not from humans. Yeah, like Reddit, but like AI and all the actors are AI.
Yeah, and you have to be like...
know if you want to go that far you'd have to be pretty clever about how to like make that interesting and engaging yeah like generically i think hey that does a great job of summarizing hey microsoft put out this new quantum cpu here's the deal here's the criticisms like here's why it might be great here's why it might not be i think it does a fantastic job of just coldly yeah failing that and taking stuff further to have like something that seems a bit more human i think is harder but i can see how you do that
It is interesting just to think, just something as simple as the Reddit model where AI models or whatever, little people that are actually AI, they have their own little account, could actually upvote stuff and actually comment on stuff. What would that result in? Yeah. Because the LLM output is very vanilla down the middle, but if you took a whole bunch of it,
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Chapter 6: How might AI-generated social feeds work?
Within parameters of like not being too extreme and like actually understanding what the other person's saying before responding. Okay.
I'm sold. Maybe AI is the answer. It solves all this information overload and just biases and all these weird things that are going on in the world.
Yeah. Yeah. So I think that there's something there. And to be a consumer product, which is great. Yeah. And especially now, there's just so much appetite to try anything AI related. So if someone's interested in building something, I think there's something to explore in this category. I feel like I want this.
We'll build it and we'll build it in the terminal. No, I'm just kidding.
Great. Building the terminal. Perfect.
So I want to talk, now that you've just said that like you're trying not to consume all the public discourse, I want to go into some public discourse. But before we do that, so that'll be dessert. We can eat a little meat. Have you, not meat, but vegetables, whatever. You know what I mean?
I'm going to Korean barbecue for lunch today.
I'm sure you are. Yeah. Uh, I'd like to, I'd like to actually eat out tonight. Uh, I've been trying for like a week to get us to order. We just don't eat out ever. Uh, and there's like a restaurant in Nixa that is like, they're an Italian restaurant and they have a whole vegan menu, which is super rare in the Ozarks for there to be a restaurant with a vegan menu.
But like the, it's a husband, wife, and the wife is vegan and they have like a whole vegan menu. It's amazing. Anyway, shout out to piccolos. Uh, uh, did you see the Satya Satya Satya?
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