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247. Automated Welfare – the Simple Violence of Complex Machines

This Machine Kills

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The Power of Machine Learning

This article should have been all over my timeline a month ago, and yet I only heard about it like a few days ago from a newsletter. It's stellar findings because it is a rare example of we have really concrete verification and validation of things that we know to be true theoretically. We know to hold an aggregate as a kind of general rules and principles, and now we have just like stone-cold fucking proof of them in a really specific example. So I want us to spin an episode actually giving this article to do, giving it the attention it deserves, and really kind of picking through.

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