Lex Friedman's Podcast on Tech Politics and Right Wing Media

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Alex Castellanos: I feel like Lex Friedman's podcast is one of the places where those kind of perspectives find one another. He says tech has taken this lurch to the right and how that's reflected in their politics, but alsoKind of the media that they kind of consume and promote or all these sorts of things.Castellanos: You see that with Musk, but you know, another of the people you've written about is like Friedman,. Right? And I feel like you very much see that kind of approach with his kind of lifestyle, his diet that he's talked about.

Paris Marx is joined by Julia Black to discuss tech billionaires’ embrace of pronatalism and how it’s part of a broader rationalist project to remake society and protect their privileged positions.

Julia Black is a senior correspondent at Insider and previously worked at Esquire and Vox. Follow Julia on Twitter at @mjnblack.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Julia wrote about pronatalism, Lex Fridman, and Sam Altman.
Paris wrote about eugenics in Silicon Valley.
Marc Andreessen wrote “It’s Time to Build” in April 2020.
Timnit Gebru gave a presentation on the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies. Émile Torres made a thread on Twitter about it.

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