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unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc

著者： Greg La Blanc
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unSILOed is a series of interdisciplinary conversations that inspire new ways of thinking about our world. Our goal is to build a community of lifelong learners addicted to curiosity and the pursuit of insight about themselves and the world around them.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*All rights reserved. アート 文学史・文学批評 経済学
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  • 664. A Pessimist’s View on What It Means To Be Human with William Ian Miller

    664. A Pessimist’s View on What It Means To Be Human with William Ian Miller
    2026/06/30
    What insights on social psychology can be gleaned from ancient texts? William Ian Miller is a professor of law at the University of Michigan and prolific author. His work is that of a polymath and covers everything from Icelandic sagas (Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland; 'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njals Saga) to philosophical meditations on what makes us human (Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life; Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence). William joins Greg to discuss the varying themes across his body of work including, luck and magical thinking, law and violence in Icelandic sagas, competition and humility, and the purpose of disgust. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.* Episode Quotes: The de-evolution of psychological smarts in a pacified society 12:57: When you're a medieval historian, you'll see a lot of things that obviously progressed—medical care, stuff like that. A lot of things went backward, like, let's say, just psychological smarts. You had to be much better back then at reading somebody else's intentional states than we are now, because we're a highly pacified society. The idea that some clown can walk towards you texting and make you get out of the way and not get clocked in the face is just beyond... that could not happen in medieval Iceland. You bumped into somebody and didn't look where you were going, that would be an offense to that person's honor,  to the one you bumped into, of not even bothering to see who he was or where he was. Democracy as a principle of shared contempt 30:54: Democracy might be a principle of shared contempt, that everybody knows that they're held in contempt just as they hold the other in contempt. Utilitarianism’s math problem and the dark funding of happiness 08:02: How much happiness is schadenfreude? Delight in somebody else's misery. How much of your happiness is funded by other people's misery? I always think that utilitarianism ran into a real math problem. The greatest happiness for the greatest number needed to be funded by misery somewhere. Show Links: Recommended Resources: Legal Code of King Alfred the Great The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin James Boyd White NomosPhysisPaul Rozin Guest Profile: Faculty Profile at University of MichiganProfessional Website Guest Work: Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland 'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njals SagaOutrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and LifeLosing ItFaking It The Mystery of Courage The Anatomy of DisgustHumiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • 663. The Quest for Authenticity in an Algorithm-Driven World with Kyle Chayka

    663. The Quest for Authenticity in an Algorithm-Driven World with Kyle Chayka
    2026/06/25
    Kyle Chayka is a staff writer for the New Yorker and also the author of the books Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture and The Longing for Less: What's Missing from Minimalism. Greg and Kyle discuss how algorithmic feeds shift culture from the “long tail” promise of niche discovery toward homogenization, rapid fads, and blockbuster dominance. Kyle argues platforms lower barriers to publish but make reaching audiences dependent on gaming recommendation systems, pushing creators, journalists, and even restaurants and tourism toward engagement-driven, Instagrammable, simplified outputs and fast feedback loops. Kyle discusses “algorithmic anxiety,” authenticity and taste being shaped by feeds, and incentives like Spotify’s 30-second stream metric affecting music length, quality, and what artists do to respond to that system. They contrast shallow metrics with criticism and curation, discuss minimalism and performative authenticity, and note countervailing long-tail models like newsletters, Patreon, and podcasts, emphasizing the need to exit feeds for deeper engagement. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.* Episode Quotes: Why everything online starts to look the same 06:02: Algorithmic feeds and recommendations kind of encourage people to homogenize themselves. Like, they don't just stamp the content. The digital platform doesn't dictate exactly what the content looks like, but it encourages all of us, all of the writers and creators and musicians, to behave in similar ways in order to game the system and get an audience for ourselves. Do algorithmic feeds reward simplicity? 09:46: I think algorithmic feeds reward simplicity. Like, they reward the idea translated into the fewest words or the image that is the most, like, basically attractive or compelling, that lights up your brain right away. So I think people tend to present themselves and mold themselves in that direction as well. Have we lost control of what we like? 28:45: Taste is never totally organic, right? Like, a record label executive is going to pick the hot young band of the moment in the 1990s. A museum curator will choose who to put in a gallery show, and that will influence what you're actually seeing. But to me, that sense of anxiety was new. Like, that fear that you had lost control of what you liked and that you couldn't identify with it because it was somehow alien to you, that was really striking to me. Show Links: Recommended Resources: Andy WarholWalter BenjaminPierre BourdieuMark FisherMarie KondoDonald Judd Guest Profile: The New Yorker Profile and WorkKyleChayka.comLinkedIn ProfileWikipedia PageSocial Profile on XSocial Profile on Instagram Guest Work: Amazon Author PageFilterworld: How Algorithms Flattened CultureThe Longing for Less: What's Missing from MinimalismKyle Chayka Industries | Substack Newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • 662. Exploring Honesty: Beyond Truth and Lies in the Age of Deception and AI with Christian B. Miller

    662. Exploring Honesty: Beyond Truth and Lies in the Age of Deception and AI with Christian B. Miller
    2026/06/23
    Christian B. Miller is the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and the author of several books. His latest title is The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World. Greg and Christian discuss what Christian calls ‘The Honesty Crisis.’ He defines honesty as a virtue involving both stable honest behavior (not lying, cheating, stealing, misleading, promise breaking, fraud, hypocrisy, self-deception, or “BS-ing”) and proper motivation (rooted in altruistic concern or duty, not self-interest). He argues honesty tracks subjective belief, so false statements can be honest and true statements can be dishonest, and discusses bullshitting, authenticity, excessive frankness, white lies and their costs, and the puzzle of self-deception. Christian cites research suggesting most people default to truth-telling, but claims that multiple “honesty crises” are happening now where technology makes dishonesty easier to commit and harder to detect: AI cheating, deepfakes, internet infidelity, political misinformation, celebrity/influencer dishonesty, and plagiarism. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.* Episode Quotes: The two features of an honesty crisis 35:08: An honesty crisis, any of those, is going to have two features. It's more tempting to be dishonest than it was before, and it's easier to get away with dishonesty than it was before. So it's important to highlight that it's not that there was never dishonesty in these areas. That would be silly. That would be a bad claim, dumb claim. You know, education is one of my areas. There's always been student cheating. It's that something has changed such that it's more tempting now to be dishonest than it was before, and it's harder for others to detach that dishonesty. Is honesty one of the broadest virtues there is? 04:30: Honesty protects against lying, but it also protects against stealing, against cheating, against misleading, against promise breaking, fraud, hypocrisy, self-deception, BS-ing. There's a lot of moral territory it covers on the behavioral side. Maybe one of the broadest virtues there is. Subjective truth vs. reality 05:57: Honesty tracks the subjective truth. It tracks how you see the reality, not necessarily how reality really is. I mean, ideally, of course, you want your subjective representation to line up with how reality really is. That's what we all want. But it doesn't always. And honesty tracks how you see the world, how you see reality, not necessarily how reality really is. Show Links: Recommended Resources: VirtueHonestyHarry FrankfurtAristotleTruth-Default TheoryPizzagate Conspiracy Theory Guest Profile: The Study Center at Wake Forest ProfileChristianBMiller.comLinkedIn ProfileWikipedia PageSocial Profile on XUnSILOED Ep 187: Christian B. Miller - What Does It Mean To Be Virtuous Now? Guest Work: Amazon Author PageThe Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest WorldMoral PsychologyHonesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected VirtueThe Character Gap: How Good Are We?Character and Moral PsychologyGoogle Scholar Page Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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