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Episode 217 – Against Technocracy

We are told that an elite class of experts (or perhaps some benevolent supercomputers) can transform our world of want and despair into a world of milk and honey. But this is not a new idea, and it has always been propounded by the very elites who have put the current...

Episode 478 – We Need To Talk About AI

Episode 478 – We Need To Talk About AI

Newspapers are printing summer reading lists of AI-hallucinated books. Apple "Intelligence" is making up fake BBC headlines. People are losing their minds as ChatGPT calls them "spiral starchildren" and "river walkers." Like characters in a Loony Tunes skit, we have...