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Gideon Lichfield: OK, but let me play the synthetic biology devil's advocate for a second.Lauren Goode: OK, OK.Gideon Lichfield: When you have kids, you are throwing the genetic dice, you are mixing your DNA and that of your partners, and—Lauren Goode: Oh, is that how you have kids? Should we get into the birds and the bees here? You're my boss. Would you like to explain the birds and the bees to me? How does this work exactly? Gideon Lichfield: Are you being sassy?Lauren Goode: We should also probably let the audience…

Gideon Lichfield: I'm sure it will be if it isn't already. No, totally, I think we're gonna get a hydroponic organic psilocybin encased in artisanal, ethically sourced chocolate harvested from the Western-facing slopes of some mountain in Nicaragua, and it's gonna be very expensive. And somebody with a very snooty head, who's gonna be standing there at the shop explaining to you which kind of psilocybin you should be using—I have no question any of this will happen. It's basically inevitability.Lauren Goode: OK, and then…

Lauren Goode: So it's not at the point yet where you have a control group of say Great Danes or rottweilers, and one group is on the drugs and they've lived longer, and another group is not on the drugs or they're using a placebo and they had shorter lives. It's that you're looking at specific biomarkers around health span, and so far, some of the evidence is suggesting that there's greater health or anti-aging in the dogs that are on the drugs?Celine Halioua: Yeah. I wouldn't call it anti-aging. I would call it, we've…

Gideon Lichfield: Lauren, have you ever met someone with an idea that seems completely out there, and then when you talk to them they convince you it's actually totally reasonable, and then a little while later you find yourself thinking it's still outlandish, but you actually can't explain why.Lauren Goode: Yes. I work in media.Lauren Goode: So we encounter people like this.Gideon Lichfield: Happens every day.Lauren Goode: All the time. Yeah. But are you telling me that's what happened to you and Jamie Beard?Gideon…

Lauren Goode: Do you mean you personally or the collective you? Gideon Lichfield: I mean, it's always about me, isn't it? Lauren Goode: Of course. Gideon Lichfield: So anyway, I ride a bicycle, I use public transport. I don't own a car.Lauren Goode: But you own a motorcycle though.Gideon Lichfield: Thank you for the street cred, but I keep it in storage most of the time.Lauren Goode: OK, so here's why you should care about parking.Gideon Lichfield: I'm all ears.Lauren Goode: This isn't just about the future of parking,…

Lauren: Interesting.Sima: But because we are saying that it solves obesity, suddenly it's a debate. Lauren: When you, when you say cancel culture, I mean, is that something that factors into your thinking about your messaging around Weight Watchers? Sima: I think that it factored into our thinking before. Look, I wasn't here when we changed the name to WW.Lauren: Mm-hmm. Sima: But I will say that I think a big part of that was a move toward wellness felt like it would align better with the times. And, you know, when I…

Gideon: I find it so much work to get started on a new platform, you know, to follow people and figure out what I want to prioritize and post things there. Uh, so I can't really say that I've used them. I've tinkered, but that's about it. Lauren: Yeah. My workflow now is I, I publish a story or a podcast on WIRED. I open Twitter, I share it, and then I'm like, where's my Bluesky login again? And then I do that. And I'm like, oh, right, T2, where I think I have, you know, four followers and I do that and then I craft…

Gideon: OK. Lauren: It's time for a pop quiz. Gideon: Oh no.Lauren: So you are the editor in chief here at WIRED, and you've been talking a lot about AI, so I wanted to see how good you are at telling regular human-made music apart from AI-generated music. Gideon: I mean, I can barely tell music by one human apart from another sometimes. So, uh, you know, you might be disappointed, but I will do my best. Lauren: OK, here's the first track.Lauren: Let's hear the second one. Lauren:  First, I'm curious if you know who the…

We talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why making direct human-to-AI comparisons isn't necessarily helpful in determining our relationship with technology. We talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why making direct human-to-AI comparisons isn't necessarily helpful in determining our relationship with technology. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic…

Gideon Lichfield: Exactly.Lauren Goode: And you can actually pause.Gideon Lichfield: Yes, and that's what makes it simple, because there are 17 different apps but only one phone.Lauren Goode: But then do you, like, wake up in the morning, and at 6 in the morning you've gone a blissful eight hours of sleep and there's an email from Anna Wintour addressed to you and you're like, "Wow, I really should not have put my phone down for this long."Gideon Lichfield: No, it's more like, "I really should not have picked up my phone…