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Assembling Complexity Together
00:04:06
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| That was Drake and the Weekend. | |
| What's the name of that song? | |
| Does it have a name? | |
| Oh, shoot. | |
| I left my computer in there. | |
| I brought it. | |
| I just left it in my office. | |
| That was made by AI. | |
| What the fuck? | |
| That was not Drake and the Weekend. | |
| It's by Ghostwriter 977 on TikTok. | |
| It's blowing up socials and streaming platforms. | |
| Go back up, please. | |
| UMG, which controls around a third of the global music market, has already asked streaming platforms to ban AI, a modern Napster moment. | |
| So they don't want you doing this. | |
| Art has been trumped by computers. | |
| What's that? | |
| I saw some lawyer on the weekend on Twitter talking about how half his job now is just done by AI. | |
| Like he tells you to write up legal documents. | |
| He peruses them, of course, and he goes, yeah, that's really good. | |
| Send it off. | |
| Corporate mergers, all kinds of complex copyright law. | |
| Handle it, AI. | |
| He has this massive, infinite team of assistants that don't exist. | |
| Spooky. | |
| That's crazy, man. | |
| Isn't that crazy, man? | |
| That's not. | |
| I wish AI would fucking do something about this infrastructure problem we have in America where incompetence is taking over as the dominant characteristic of virtually everything we do. | |
| I was at Home Depot this weekend conducting my own level of incompetence, I should say. | |
| Pretty hungover. | |
| I was sitting around. | |
| My wife really wanted to barbecue on the weekend, and our barbecue is shit. | |
| It's really, really old. | |
| We actually, when we bought the house, it was there. | |
| It's a Weber, but it's rusted to shit, and I could only get it up to $350. | |
| So I think, I call Maddie. | |
| I go, can you come by with your van? | |
| I got to go buy a grill. | |
| I just want one that's ready because I hear they're a nightmare to put together. | |
| And he goes, I'm in Jersey. | |
| Farts. | |
| So I drive down there and I look at one and it says free delivery and assembly. | |
| Great. | |
| So I choose a really nice one, a $600 one, a Weber, and down from $714. | |
| And then I go there and I go, okay, I want to deliver it and assemble. | |
| They go, okay, we could do that Thursday. | |
| Ah, fuck. | |
| See, if I had my shit together, I would have already looked that up and I would have booked it earlier, right? | |
| So then they go, okay, I'll just, I'll, I'll rent one of these trucks. | |
| There it is. | |
| That's it. | |
| That's my exact one. | |
| The square? | |
| Yeah. | |
| I go, I'll just rent a truck. | |
| You can rent a truck for 25 bucks there, right? | |
| So I'll do that. | |
| I'll drive it home. | |
| Then I'll come back. | |
| So then they go, the guy goes, hey, Will, you got to get one of these barbecues from the back. | |
| They tell me to be prepared to wait 15, 20 minutes. | |
| Well, it's right there. | |
| I'll go get it. | |
| And he pulls a Homer Simpson walking backwards. | |
| No. | |
| And they go, Will, come on, man. | |
| Will, Will. | |
| He was Hispanic. | |
| The guy yelling was black. | |
| 90% of the employees were black. | |
| This was a new Rochelle, just north of here. | |
| And I'm just like, this is fucking brutal. | |
| This is brutal. | |
| So then I get the box. | |
| I take it home. | |
| It took, there was 31 steps to putting this fucking thing together. | |
| And by the time I put it together, it was about 10% bigger than the box it came in. | |
| A. B, every little piece had its own cardboard box and plastic on it. | |
| It seemed like it was harder to put in the box than it would be just to build it. | |
| What a nightmare. | |