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Tech Policy Podcast TechFreedom
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Tech policy is at the center of the hottest debates in American law and politics. On the Tech Policy Podcast, host Corbin Barthold discusses the latest developments with some of the tech world's best journalists, lawyers, academics, and more.
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377: AI and Wicked Problems
Arnold Kling discusses his recent article in Reason magazine, “Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work.”
Topics include:
- Why central planning is impossible
- The importance of prices
- What is AI good for?
- Will AI know us better than we know ourselves?
- What markets will AI disrupt?
- Social media and tribal gang-sign flashing
- The myopia of the revanchist right
Links:
Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work (https://tinyurl.com/ukwyj2du)
David Brin’s Transparent Society Revisited (https://tinyurl.com/yh9cs3s4)
Mir McLuhanism (https://tinyurl.com/3w3twpsx)
The Revanchist Right (https://tinyurl.com/m48map9z)
Tech Policy Podcast 368: How the Government Gets Your Data (https://tinyurl.com/2r6kwvw2) -
376: Influencer, Algorithm, Crowd — With Renée DiResta
Renée DiResta (Stanford Internet Observatory) discusses her new book, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality.
Topics include:
- Social media influencers: the new media elite
- How do ideas take root?
- Influencers as exploiters of asymmetries
- Bullshit: an investigation
- Could platforms have stopped Stop the Steal?
- Fixing the expert class
- Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent
- The future of social media
Links:
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality (https://tinyurl.com/y66h4us5)
Influencers, Bullshitters, and How We Lost a Shared Reality (https://tinyurl.com/2bc8am93)
Renée DiResta at Politics and Prose (DC), June 13 (https://tinyurl.com/pm4cvaya)
Renée DiResta at the Commonwealth Club (SF), June 17 (https://tinyurl.com/h62tkb3p)
The New Media Goliaths (Noema) (https://tinyurl.com/29p7rjxr)
Agents of Influence newsletter (https://tinyurl.com/44zstpty)
Tech Policy Podcast 293: The Supply of Renée DiResta Should Be Infinite (https://tinyurl.com/59k265aa) -
From the Vault: Conspiracy Theories and the Internet
From January 10, 2022 (Episode 309): Joseph Uscinski (University of Miami) argues that the internet is not increasing the prevalence of conspiracy theories.
Links:
Don’t Blame Social Media for Conspiracy Theories—They Would Still Flourish Without It (https://tinyurl.com/whz5a9uk) -
375: Tech Facts and Fallacies
Robert Atkinson is president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. He joins the show to discuss his new book, Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy, co-authored with David Moschella.
Topics include:
- Tech panic: speeding-uppers vs. slowing-downers
- Tech and privacy: try living in an analogue village!
- The wicked problem of content moderation
- Is tech progress bad for the middle class?
- Is tech driving market concentration?
- “Industrial planning”: dirty words?
Links:
Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths about Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy (https://tinyurl.com/p93fypz5) -
374: Politics and Technological Change
Richard Morrison (Competitive Enterprise Institute) joins the show, in a crossover episode with the Free the Economy podcast.
Topics include:
- The history of podcasts
- The rise of micro media (find a thousand true fans!)
- Performative tech doomerism
- The idleness of romanticizing the past
- The quest for online community
- Conservatives in the Technium
Links:
Free the Economy (https://tinyurl.com/38r6jw7t)
Why Conservatism Failed (https://tinyurl.com/yru444f5)
The Quest for a Better Online “Community” (https://tinyurl.com/5f8twhny) -
#373: Porn and the First Amendment
It’s the episode you’ve been waiting for: TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold and Ari Cohn talk about pornography and free expression.
Topics include:
- The Founding Fathers: epic porn fiends (j/k)
- Obscenity law, a brief history
- Do conservatives still want to ban James Joyce?
- “I know it when I see it”—Worst. Legal standard. Ever.
- Is there a moral case against porn? (Spoiler alert: No)
- The Fifth Circuit botches internet speech law
Links:
Tech Policy Podcast #360: Red States vs. Every SCOTUS Internet Precedent (https://tinyurl.com/4y4fwb9j)
A Reagan Judge, The First Amendment, And The Eternal War Against Pornography (https://tinyurl.com/2ba82bbe)
Texas Legislature Convinced First Amendment Simply Does Not Exist (https://tinyurl.com/4x8vyjkh)
Is Porn Harmful? The Evidence, the Myths and the Unknowns (https://tinyurl.com/59fzrxvd)