Rot Economics with MIT's Daron Acemoglu
In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with famed MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to talk about the economics of the tech ecosystem, the ridiculousness of generative AI's promises, and the realities of tec...
24 Heinä 202433min
CrowdStruck
On Friday July 19, millions of Windows PCs entered a doom-loop that rendered them non-functional thanks to an update sent by a little-known company called CrowdStrike - and in this emergency Better Of...
22 Heinä 202430min
The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies," but as "BS" - as defined by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt in "on BS" ...
19 Heinä 202456min
Pop Culture
When the money gets nervous, so should you. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through a remarkable report from global investment bank Goldman Sachs where multiple economists call BS on the AI movem...
17 Heinä 202449min
How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry
The shareholder supremacy has eaten the tech industry, driving private and public companies to chase unprofitable, unsustainable ideas like generative AI as a means of expressing eternal growth to the...
12 Heinä 202455min
The Shareholder Supremacy
In this episode, Ed Zitron tracks the history of the growth-at-all-costs rot economy to a court case in 1916 that established the Shareholder Supremacy, and set the terms for General Electric's Jack W...
10 Heinä 202434min
I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Ft. Nik Suresh & Robert Evans
A few weeks ago, an Australian tech worker called Nik Suresh wrote an evisceration of the current AI hype boom called "I Will F**king Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again." Ed Zitron and Robert Evans...
3 Heinä 202445min
Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz and Michael Fisher
In a special live-to-tape episode of Better Offline, Ed is joined by The Verge's Alex Cranz and YouTube influencer Michael Fisher to talk about what they're actually enjoying in the tech industry - an...
26 Kesä 20241h 34min
