Ep. 150: America By A Thousand (Ft. Nathan Inge)

In celebration of our 150th ep. milestone, we are lucky to welcome back a legend of the show from the early-days.  My guest is one of my childhood friends & my high school debate partner, Nathan Inge.

 

For the last year or so, Nathan has been living & working in Amsterdam, focused on an entirely new problem space.  We are fortunate to get his first amendment rights on display for our listeners while he visits Colorado.  Most Europeans he meets have asked “Why?”, confused by Nathan’s story — moving from the US to Europe.  Safe to say our global soft power is safer than the news leads us to believe; the USA is still the land of opportunity. 

 

We discussed the difficult process of finding an apartment in Amsterdam, what it has been like for Nathan living in an old apartment building, how generative AI models & LLM’s are used by software engineers, and how creative applications of generative AI lack practical use for creatives (artists, writers, etc), because their goal is to provide the “globally-most-average” result based on the model’s training data. 

 

Where does AI go from here?  How should someone connect the dots between inspiration and action?  What the heck is a momma-bike?  Thankfully, I have someone far smarter than I am to ask all these questions. 

 

Later in the episode, Nathan details his old apartment ‘Trifecta’ — mice, mold, & bedbugs.  I must say, I am proud to be an American, where at least we can solve our pest problems with chemicals sold at every Wal-Mart; the best Europeans can manage is Vinegar.  

Now I understand why we are annexing Greenland. 

 

FO & BW