Patreon Preview – 246. American Psycho 2.0 // SPAC Jesus Returns
We cruise through a few topics: talk about the anti-China alliance between Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill pushing to ban TikTok; the bizarre post-mortem on SPACs published by their biggest booster, C...
11 Apr 20238min
245. Shook Ones (Tech Style)
It’s a fan cam episode for our favorite tech columnist, Brian Merchant, who had two pieces come out recently that are back-to-back bangers. First is about why all the people making and selling AI keep...
7 Apr 20231h 23min
Patreon Preview – 244. Using Neuro-Linguistic Programming to Hack Civilization
We give ourselves a concussion by talking about yet another opinion essay about AI written by three “experts” and published by a major newspaper. How is AI doing neuro-linguistic programming? What hap...
4 Apr 20235min
243. GPT-4 and the Politics of OpaqueAI (ft. Abeba Birhane)
We are joined by Abeba Birhane — Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation — for a critical discussion about the release of GPT-4 and OpenAI. We also get into the excellent work that A...
30 Mars 20231h 18min
Patreon Preview – 242. Time Bombs in the Financial System
We discuss the clear and present danger throughout the global financial system, with crises happening in the banking sector that have not been seen since the 2008 crash. However, these are not sudden ...
23 Mars 20237min
*Unlocked* – 241. Euthanasia of Silicon Valley Bank (ft. Brian Merchant)
We've unlocked this episode for the free feed. It's been a long time since we’ve seen a good old fashioned bank run lead to the collapse of a venerable financial institution, but leave it to Silicon V...
23 Mars 20231h 13min
Patreon Preview – 241. Euthanasia of Silicon Valley Bank (ft. Brian Merchant)
Been a long time since we’ve seen a good old fashioned bank run lead to the collapse of a venerable financial institution, but leave it to Silicon Valley to rediscover something old and call it new ag...
18 Mars 20238min
240. Anthropology of Algorithms, Ethnography of Engineers, Theory of Traps (ft. Nick Seaver)
We are joined by Nick Sever – author of the new book Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation – to discuss his excellent ethnographic research on the creation of algorithmic ...
17 Mars 20231h 27min
