ethics

MINIBAR: Mythos, Fable, Farce (with Leigh M. Johnson)

A lesson in how NOT to think about AI risk.

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MINIBAR: Hanlon’s Razor (with Jennifer Kling)

On attributing to malice what is best attributed to stupidity.

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Episode 225: Foucault’s “Panopticism”

Visibility is a trap.

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Episode 224: Goodhart’s Law

A 1975 footnote about central banks turns out to explain almost everything wrong with late capitalism.

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Episode 218: Strange Bedfellows: Adorno and Strauss (with Jeffrey Bernstein)

Strauss and Adorno walk into a bar. Turns out they both hate fascism.

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Episode 215: Family “No Contact” (with Kiran Bhardwaj)

Is family “estrangement” a defensible choice?

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Episode 211: Intelligence(s)

What counts as intelligence?

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Episode 210: Marilyn Frye’s “Oppression”

How to mark the distinction between being “inconvenienced” and being oppressed.

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Episode 207: The Enshittification of… everything?

How late capitalism turns every click into crap.

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Episode 206: Quiet Resistance (with Tamara Fakhoury)

What can Palestinian rock climbers teach us about resisting differently?

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