Please stop doing AI episodes
If you did this many episodes on literally anything else we’d be sick of it too

Jerusalem Demsas and Matt Yglesias debate which historical figures deserve to be canceled and which shouldn’t have been. With the Trump administration pushing to restore statues of figures removed during the “Great Wokening,” they ask what a statue, a holiday, or a name on a school is actually for. Jerusalem lays out her test: why we honor someone and whether their cruelty is the main thing they’re remembered for. Matt argues the bigger problem is that we undercommemorate people, and that we should want more statues, not fewer.

Plus, a peer review on whether machine learning can predict who will be shot, and how much power the government should have to use that data.

Sorry for another ai adjacent podcast ,
But dwarkesh and Tyler on interesting times