In Episode 13, Jessica examines the AI portrait trend in the context of a collective move towards virtual realities and advancing artificial technologies, and decides she remains decidedly on the analog side of the tracks. Also featured: the magnificent woods analogy, the childlike “But why?” approach to NFTs, disconnection, distraction, the misapplication of human genius—and why analog might be the best, most magical, medicine.

Topic: An analog vs. artificial approach to life

1:30 The analogy of the “magnificent woods”

3:15 Google’s telling questions about the Metaverse

3:56 The trouble with convoluted and overly complex new technologies

6:50 Analog over AI

8:05 A list of analog magic

10:13 Technological advancement + human distraction = loss of power

14:05 Analog medicine

Quotes:

“When someone is touting something that is so convoluted and complex that to simply explain or understand it, such that people with advanced degrees struggle to explain it clearly and people with advanced degrees have to go searching and digging to understand it clearly… then I think we still have some work to do.”

"The thing is, it’s so incredibly simple and yet so incredibly difficult to truly be right here, fully present in the now, in this analog world, that most of us cannot do it."

"I think the more we head down a road that is more artificial, that is disconnected from the present, from the physical moment and physical body and physical experience, without a really conscious examination of why and how and where we’re headed, it just has this trap of being, I think, a real distraction at best, and a dangerous path, at worst.”

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