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Ep. 8: Glen Weyl, Ph.D: Alternatives to Technocracy & the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence

The Moral Imagination

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James Scott's Critique of Brasilia

I just Was in Brazil for for the actinist studios there and I filmed in Brasilia Inspired a little bit by or a lot by by James Scott and his his critiques of Brasilia Which come from other critiques as well. The idea of technocracy for me is the notion of a narrow set of people Developing some sort of a formal language that through which they see everything else. Then rather than viewing that as a means to generate some insight that then has to be justified to others in their own terms Instead view that as the lens by which to organize others lives. Technology turns into technocracy when it forgets that last part Yeah, so I mean I think you're right. It

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