Three excellent posts this week. I find the common theme is the story of our time that most ignore. Trump 2.0, DODGE, and AI are destructively creeping through society, and people applaud because they’re told they should. Perhaps you said, or I gathered, that the administration encourages robotically callous disregard of the collateral damage that wrecks lives. It’s a tech world attitude that corresponds to businesses where people are unvalued. The leaders of companies where top executives cry at their desks every day are now best buddies with the president. The issue was illustrated during the government’s DOGE propaganda infomercial on F NC. The banker acknowledged that most of those laid off were well-intentioned, diligent people caught up in an overstaffed organization. That’s the first time they haven’t been conflated with lazy or sabotaging Feds. MAGA maniacs have been sadistic in dissing them, and fixing expectable errors immediately is a promise unkept to those paraded around liberal media. I’m less optimistic than you and your guest. Austerity is an emergency need,Trump cannot allow the economic crash during his term, and greed rules.
By far my favorite interview of yours. With the ever increasing threat of labor arbitrage and now of A-I, the future looks impossibly bleak at times for those of us in tech. I don’t know why others aren’t thinking about the devastating social consequences of mass job displacement, but appreciate you warning about said consequences so effectively. It’s just icing on the cake that, through Trumps Stargate A-I project, our tax money is helping investors slap giant Data Centers down in even residential areas against the will of local communities (for example the egregious situation in Monrovia IN). They may always lose, but my Luddite sympathies run deep as of late.
Did I miss a memo? I have noticed that the last few posts were just CliffsNotes of a audio chat with a person of interest. Is this how it is going to be going forward?
No—I’ve just been super behind on a major writing project that I’m doing on background and struggling to keep up. I should have a post this weekend. I’m sorry!
Three excellent posts this week. I find the common theme is the story of our time that most ignore. Trump 2.0, DODGE, and AI are destructively creeping through society, and people applaud because they’re told they should. Perhaps you said, or I gathered, that the administration encourages robotically callous disregard of the collateral damage that wrecks lives. It’s a tech world attitude that corresponds to businesses where people are unvalued. The leaders of companies where top executives cry at their desks every day are now best buddies with the president. The issue was illustrated during the government’s DOGE propaganda infomercial on F NC. The banker acknowledged that most of those laid off were well-intentioned, diligent people caught up in an overstaffed organization. That’s the first time they haven’t been conflated with lazy or sabotaging Feds. MAGA maniacs have been sadistic in dissing them, and fixing expectable errors immediately is a promise unkept to those paraded around liberal media. I’m less optimistic than you and your guest. Austerity is an emergency need,Trump cannot allow the economic crash during his term, and greed rules.
Great chat. I’m with you guys. AI should be steered toward having the best military tech, medicine, science research etc,
It’s fine for anons to have fun with it on the internet… but a label should be required for publishing, especially for the arts and written word.
By far my favorite interview of yours. With the ever increasing threat of labor arbitrage and now of A-I, the future looks impossibly bleak at times for those of us in tech. I don’t know why others aren’t thinking about the devastating social consequences of mass job displacement, but appreciate you warning about said consequences so effectively. It’s just icing on the cake that, through Trumps Stargate A-I project, our tax money is helping investors slap giant Data Centers down in even residential areas against the will of local communities (for example the egregious situation in Monrovia IN). They may always lose, but my Luddite sympathies run deep as of late.
Did I miss a memo? I have noticed that the last few posts were just CliffsNotes of a audio chat with a person of interest. Is this how it is going to be going forward?
No—I’ve just been super behind on a major writing project that I’m doing on background and struggling to keep up. I should have a post this weekend. I’m sorry!
No Worries. Thanks for doing the hard work. Swimming against the current is hard work.
Thank you! We’ll see how many unsubscribe after this post🤣