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240. Anthropology of Algorithms, Ethnography of Engineers, Theory of Traps (ft. Nick Seaver)

This Machine Kills

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Is There a Power Asymmetry?

The only recourse of action we have is to either accept you or kill you, right? And like that power asymmetry is really crucial. They can also lie to you or they can ignore you. There's all sorts of things to do. In any case, I think one of the things that came up a lot when I was working on this project,. Like the grad student research aspect was that every time I was like, okay, here's like a brand new problem.

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