Part One: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI
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01/30/24 • 63 min
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Robert sits down with Ify Nwadiwe to talk about the weird cult that's formed around AI, and some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley. (Adapted from his article in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-companies-advocates-cult-1234954528/)
(2 Part Series)
Sources:
- What Makes a Cult a Cult? | The New Yorker
- The Wide Angle: Understanding TESCREAL — Silicon Valley’s Rightward Turn | Washington Spectator
- We need to examine the beliefs of today’s tech luminaries
- This A.I. Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go - The New York Times (archive.is)
- Effective Accelerationism — e/acc - e/acc newsletter (archive.is)
- The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz (archive.is)
- https://abtinmus.medium.com/nick-land-for-dumbies-technological-singularity-and-capital-as-a-runaway-system-4fac0c9a163e
- https://web.archive.org/web/20141007023855/http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2014/10/hyper-racism.html
- https://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/25345
- https://regressstudies.substack.com/p/technocapital-is-eating-my-brains
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Robert sits down with Ify Nwadiwe to talk about the weird cult that's formed around AI, and some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley. (Adapted from his article in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-companies-advocates-cult-1234954528/)
(2 Part Series)
Sources:
- What Makes a Cult a Cult? | The New Yorker
- The Wide Angle: Understanding TESCREAL — Silicon Valley’s Rightward Turn | Washington Spectator
- We need to examine the beliefs of today’s tech luminaries
- This A.I. Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go - The New York Times (archive.is)
- Effective Accelerationism — e/acc - e/acc newsletter (archive.is)
- The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz (archive.is)
- https://abtinmus.medium.com/nick-land-for-dumbies-technological-singularity-and-capital-as-a-runaway-system-4fac0c9a163e
- https://web.archive.org/web/20141007023855/http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2014/10/hyper-racism.html
- https://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/25345
- https://regressstudies.substack.com/p/technocapital-is-eating-my-brains
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Part Two: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI
Robert tells Ify about the time tech weirdo's recreated Hell using AI and Robert pisses off a VP at Google. Plus: More cult shit!
(Adapted from his article in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-companies-advocates-cult-1234954528/)
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Behind the Bastards - Part One: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI
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Media, Well, come back to Behind the Bastards. I don't know why I did that, kind of like it was like I was doing a Halloween opening. Didn't work at all, horrible idea. But I'm very happy to announce our guest today back after a long hiatus from this show, but not from our hearts, Iffy and whatdy Wall.
Speaker 2How's it going going to be back?
Speaker 1Yeah?
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