Lauren Goode: You can’t have self-driving by deleting that.
Jason Kehe: We’ll figure that out.
Lauren Goode: How are you going to do that?
Jason Kehe: Fine. I specifically delete Google Maps, which I think has ruined lives.
Lauren Goode: What?
Jason Kehe: My mother, for instance, used to be one of the world’s great navigators and now can’t grocery shop without plugging it in.
Katie Drummond: Interestingly, did you know? I don’t know north, south, east, west. I know up, down, right, left.
Jason Kehe: Oh. You can get places?
Katie Drummond: Because you’re in mass.
Lauren Goode: You’re like, I’m going up.
Katie Drummond: But the sun. Don’t you?
Lauren Goode: No, I can’t do it. I don’t know.
Jason Kehe: And I was reading recently that you would think that would alleviate anxiety when you have a GPS in your car, but it actually replaces the anxiety with something called spatial anxiety, so these things that we think are helping us are actually causing or widening our potential to be anxious. Just get rid of it. No more Google Maps.
Lauren Goode: Fair enough.
Katie Drummond: Lauren, what’s yours?
Lauren Goode: I’m surprised you both didn’t say this because I was like, everyone’s going to say this. I would control ChatGPT. I would control OpenAI.
Katie Drummond: Like you would be behind it?
Lauren Goode: I would be Sam Altman.
Jason Kehe: Have fun.
Lauren Goode: I think I could do a good job.
Katie Drummond: No, you’d be great.
Lauren Goode: All right. I’m going across the street afterwards, just taking over his office.
Katie Drummond: There you go.
Lauren Goode: He’s probably still there working. Alt, I debated this a little bit, but today was an Apple product launch day. New iPhones, better cameras, happens every year. I would make the front-facing cameras worse as I get older. Why do we want front-facing cameras-
Katie Drummond: That’s amazing.
Lauren Goode: … to be so high resolution?
Katie Drummond: With every passing year, the resolution gets 10% worse.
Lauren Goode: Obviously, that should be the thing that happens. And then delete, I would delete Meta Threads because I just hate Threads. Threads, it’s just such a bad Twitter… I still call it Twitter, it should still be Twitter. In my mind, it will always be pre 2022, but it’s such a bad Twitter copycat. And Meta has totally used the power of its already massive network to just rope people into using it, and I think that the incentive there is, and of course, I know that Adam Mosseri and Mark Zuckerberg are often on Threads talking about the product changes that they’re making and they’re listening to users and stuff, but I find it to be such an empty calorie experience when I get sucked into Threads, and I wish it was as good as Twitter used to be, but yeah, I would delete Threads. You don’t need threads, so that’s my answer. That was really fun, guys.
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