Politechs
@politechs.bsky.social
A podcast on the politics of technology from the perspective of tech workers.
It was a great conversation! Thanks again for coming on! 🔨
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It was a great conversation! Thanks again for coming on! 🔨
We agree that scaled LLMs of the sort being deployed by OpenAI and Google and Anthropic etc are intrinsically immoral (CSAM in training data, case closed). Language models and transformers aren't inherently bad, though. OpenAI made deliberate choices that led to this; see Karen Hao's "Empire of AI".
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We agree that scaled LLMs of the sort being deployed by OpenAI and Google and Anthropic etc are intrinsically immoral (CSAM in training data, case closed). Language models and transformers aren't inherently bad, though. OpenAI made deliberate choices that led to this; see Karen Hao's "Empire of AI".
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Resistance
Podcast Episode · Politechs · S1 E8 · 59m
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September 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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I first learned about the centaur / reverse centaur concept from Cory Doctorow: pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/r...
Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Risks
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September 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Risks
Podcast Episode · Politechs · 09/15/2025 · 50m
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Automation
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September 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Automation
Podcast Episode · Politechs · S1 E7 · 1h 1m
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September 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Programmers
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August 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Programmers
Podcast Episode · Politechs · S1 E6 · 1h 13m
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August 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Inevitability
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August 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Inevitability
Poddavsnitt · Politechs · S1 A5 · 55 min
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August 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Surveillance
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August 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Surveillance
Podcast Episode · Politechs · S1 E4 · 1h 13m
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August 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Narratives and Narrators
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July 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Narratives and Narrators
Podcast Episode · Politechs · S1 E3 · 1h 2m
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July 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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