453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy
We do a deep dive into OpenAI’s new report “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First” and pick apart their extensive set of proposals for building an “Open Economy” and "...
15 Apr 1h 40min
Patreon Preview – 452. Lady Luck is the World Spirit
We talk about a new innovation in focus groups and public polling called “silicon sampling” — or a new way that models which claim to represent the world are actually engines that shape reality. The a...
8 Apr 7min
451. Do Not Become Addicted to Electrons (ft. Tim Sahay, Kate Mackenzie)
We chat with Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie — authors of the indispensable newsletter The Polycrisis and hosts of the new podcast Electric World Order — to get into the energy transition, financial mark...
1 Apr 1h 18min
Patreon Preview – 450. Sorry Grandma, Computer Says Die
We chat about new strides in Australian innovation. What if you had a computer quiz that decided if your grandma deserved the care needed to have a good life? What if you had a computer quiz designed ...
25 Mars 6min
449. Efficiently Drowning in Work
TMK thought validated yet again! We talk about two big studies into the effects of AI on workloads, which show with in-depth empirical detail how AI intensifies and expands labor, rather than lightens...
17 Mars 1h 17min
Patreon Preview – 448. Dubai’s Golden Dome Crumbles
We discuss the breathless article in Jeff Bezo’s Washington Post about how Claude’s integration into the Palantir Maven Smart System has been used for rapid target generation and prioritization for mi...
11 Mars 5min
TMK Live Show in San Francisco - March 19th
Folks, we are doing a TMK live show in San Francisco! Come join Jathan and Ed, along with our friends, Wendy Liu and Jimmy Wu, for a fun night of left-wing tech criticism as we decode the tech vibe s...
11 Mars 1min
447. The Shinji Problem
We get into the love/hate triangle between Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon and discuss the details of these contracts for AI weapon and surveillance systems, what’s actually at stake here with deb...
3 Mars 1h 30min
