We use our approximate knowledge of many things to craft unanswerable questions. We mix cognitive science and philosophy with pop culture, tech and science to start with raw perspectives. Refining them through steamed up yet rational conversation we generally stumble upon odd answers. Hosted pseudo monthly by two humans.
Conversations: optimal communication and midnight gospel
Who won the debate? Vlad's support for voice chat, or Yoann's insistence for asynchronous IM? You'll find out here!
But before, we go over things we took out from the previous episode as well as listeners’ comments. We discuss how tools allow a media-rich communication experience, what the future of communication will be after brain upload, the history of asynchronous IM, the terminology of signal processing, parallelism vs. really fast context switching...
In a pretty unusual twist, we actually did some research! Is asynchronous or synchronous, written or oral, objectively, scientifically better? We got the answer!
That point being settled once and for all, we move to a sad but predictable news: the cancellation of the cartoon Midnight Gospel on Netflix. We present the show and what we loved about it, before devolving, as is quite often the case for Yoann, into a rant against capitalism.
A meta-analysis of listening vs reading comprehension: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543211060871
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31 May 2022
Why this call should (not) have been an email?
Today, we take the infamous thought that a lot of employees have had: “This meeting could have been an email!” and turn it into a debate! Let the duel between oral and written communication begin and crown the One True Communication Form!
We examine obvious and counterintuitive takes about which of these modes better conveys nuances and emotions, linearity vs. non-linearity, synchronicity vs. asynchronicity...
Could it be that we’re all subjects to the lobbying of extroverts overlord? What features could we get if we enforce a dystopia where we ban speech? How should you accurately measure the information bandwidth of a conversation?
All of this and more in this episode where we keep being stuck at the question: What do normal people do?
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26 Apr 2022
Conversations: Calendars and Eco
We continue our conversation with you about what the ideal schedule should be. We mentioned how important it was to break monotony, so how about adding randomness and making every week different? They could all be special!
Or maybe the answer is to be found in the sky! As listeners pointed out, this whole mess is because of the lack of synchronicity between rotation periods of the sun, the moon and the earth!
After that, Yoann presents a game that drove him addicted to a point he had not felt for a while: Eco by Strange Loop Games. This game is a mixture between Minecraft and Eve Online. Your character is specialized, so you have to collaborate and build a political and economic system to stop a meteor from crashing on your planet! It turns out that this simple formula is an extremely fertile ground to study all kinds of different economic systems, and understand what works and doesn’t about capitalism."
https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/
https://yo252yo.wordpress.com/2022/02/18/minecraft-the-metaworld/
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