Longform North
Longform North
Podcast Description
Longform interviews featuring Canadian voices and stories about Canada - its history, politics, and society.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes such as Canada's parliamentary democracy, rights and freedoms, and political history. Specific episode topics include the structure and function of Canadian parliament, the implications of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the origins of Canada’s political system, each providing essential insights into the workings of Canadian governance.
A longform interview podcast featuring stories from Canada.
This episode is a little different. It’s an interview with an A.I. of Sir John A. Macdonald.
So what does that mean? Well, it means that I gathered up the transcripts for all the House of Commons Debates for every year that Macdonald was Prime Minister, and threw in a few other historical resources as well. I processed those and made them available to a large language model, similar to the one that powers ChatGPT. Then I instructed that large language model to answer all of my questions as though it were Sir John A. Macdonald, using those historical resources I provided for reference.
The result is this interview you’re about to hear.
If you want to ask John A. Macdonald some questions of your own, you can do so here: sirjohnai.longformnorth.com
All the historical resources I used are listed there as well.
(Note: The idea for this episode was partly inspired by Tyler Cowen who used ChatGPT to record an interview with Jonathan Swift. You can check out that interview here.)
For more about the podcast, check out the website: longformnorth.com
Music by Aaron Barth
Hosted and produced by Ian Van Harten
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