Raw link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoivIaNBbrE In this ~2.5-hour video, I talk with Ag Ibragimov about Emacs, Lispprogramming, Large Language Models, social interactions and the use oflanguage, as well as the importance of narratives and story-telling.Ag shares with me his enthusiasm about all things Emacs, including thefact that it is a “Lisp machine”, so to speak, through which you cancontrol your computer. We discuss a lot of cases where Ag hasbenefited from using Emacs and how it has conditioned him to think ofproblems in a certain way.Ag tells me how he did not have an easy time switching to Emacs. Hisback and forth may have been what he needed to develop his currentappreciation for the tool. Talking with him made me feel that he isenthusiastic about the topic, both technologically and in terms of itssocial potential.Emacs would not be what it is without Emacs Lisp. In this regard, wecomment on Lisp dialects more broadly. Ag tells me about hisexperience with Clojure and how he defaults to doing his work in Lisp,with Emacs at the epicentre.Throughout our chat, Ag shares his thoughts on the significance ofstory-telling. We explore how narratives contribute to our everydayaffairs and even make some comments about how Socrates would relate toour modern world and our increasing use of LLMs to get things done.Ag has a pragmatic view of technology in general and of LLMs inparticular. We cover these issues at some length and connect the dotswith everything else.Links from Ag IbragimovHere’s my Emacs config: https://github.com/agzam/.doom.dSome Emacs packages I wrote: https://melpa.org/#/mw-thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Thesaurus https://melpa.org/#/consult-hn - Hacker News search with Consult https://melpa.org/#/browser-hist - Search through the Browserhistory https://github.com/agzam/wiktionary-bro.el - Lookup Wiktionaryentries. This one is not published only because I need to finish theorg-mode branch of it - I need to solve the problem of convertinghtml tables with sparse columns and rows to org-mode compatibleformat and there’s no good solution for it in elisp. About “Prot Asks”In this new video series, I talk to anybody who is interested to havea video call with me (so do contact me if you want!). The topics coveranything related to Emacs, technology, and life in general. More here:https://protesilaos.com/prot-asks/.