Dave & Gunnar Show

Oct 29 2024 256 ep. 39 mins 124

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David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

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Episode 264: Cryptomining Airbnbs, Psychological Warfare, and What Else?

Oct 29 2024 7 mins

This week, NotebookLM talks about the Dave and Gunnar Show Episode 263! Main Themes The Psychology of Influence and Manipulation: This episode explores how external factors, from large-scale events to seemingly harmless media, can shape our thoughts and actions. This theme is explored through discussions on propaganda, deep fakes, and the power of questioning techniques. The Blu

Episode 263: Failing the Turing Test

Sep 18 2024 42 mins

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about electricity theft, identity theft, and coaching! Imagine Dragons in Houston at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion Psychological Warfare by Paul M.A. Linebarger Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen War Day by Whitley Strieber and James W. Kunetka RHEL AI released! Cryptominers made $100,000 from mining at an Airbnb for three weeks — th

Episode 262: Two Plus Two Was Five the Whole Time

Sep 03 2024 37 mins

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people! Gunnar espouses the virtues of the Leatherman Micra Dave enjoys D-Day Conneaut! An annual WWII reenactment on the beaches of Lake Erie Ohio Renaissance Festival D&G This Week in Skeuomorphism: Here’s what the

Episode 261: Not Bad if You Don’t Look Directly at Them

Aug 26 2024 33 mins

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666! Gunnar explores the neighborhoood with iNaturalist and Seek Black-bellied whistling duck Dave saw 7 bands over 7 days The Hives Hate to Say I Told You So Foo Fighters Steve Miller Band (80!) Journey Def Leppard (64!) Loverboy Sammy Hagar (7

Episode 260: As Long as I’m Not Wearing an Apple Watch, I’ll Never Get Credit For Standing

Jul 29 2024 32 mins

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about another fake university, Brain Organoids as a Service (BOaaS?), and policing with drones! Apple Watch Oura Ring Xiaomi Smart Band 8 Appeals court rules students can sue U.S. over fake university set up by ICE University of Farmington University of Farmington on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine World's first bioprocessor uses 16 huma

Episode 259: AI Bad Breath

Jul 14 2024 59 mins

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides and downsides of superalignment! Apple Care After World by Debbie Urbanski Ex-OpenAI employee speaks out about why he was fired: 'I ruffled some feathers' SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner Microsoft's new lightweight AI rivals GPT-3.5 — it's learning from children's books and f

Episode 258: Terminator Contortionists

Jul 01 2024 43 mins

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers! Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s! Spam musubi! Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys! Nara Park deer! Google Translate! The creepy sound of online trackers Check the videos here! A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings AI

Episode 257: Flowers from Heaven

May 11 2024 31 mins

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for fake law firms, AI for politicians, drones for electric vehicles, and paid memberships for Chuck E. Cheese! Resident Alien (TV series) Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper Pixel Buds Pro A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam Commonwealth Legal Services Liberals accuse Conservatives of usin

Episode 256: Kufelik Olmak

Apr 30 2024 40 mins

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets Fallout Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced Laudato Si, paragraph 107 HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges These 'Psychedelic Cryptography' Videos Have Hidden Messages Designed to Be Seen

Episode 255: Living an Eternal Life of Strings and Wooden Whimsy

Mar 02 2024 32 mins

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots Bloons TD 6 Google Bard Gemini Ultimate Advanced Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything MemGPT MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating System MemGPT Explained! Managerial ventriloquism: Own Your Words to Gain Authority D&G