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(The ghost of) Dave Karpf
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
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OpenAI’s products don’t work as well as Sam Altman says they do. The science and engineering challenges are much more substantial than he lets on. The project of techno-optimism is ALWAYS a political project, urging us to pliantly stay out of the way while they gain market share.

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TFsifu.tweety.fish

Also he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He may genuinely believe what he’s saying! The idiot

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Ppomegranateyum57.bsky.social

That's why Marc Andreessen is a bad guy

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KCkatiecannon.bsky.social

I think the whole thing is part of the neoliberal ball of wax in many ways. Including how Phillip Mirowski describes the epistemology of contemporary neoliberalism as being like a computer The market is like a computer that is omniscient Politics & morality have no say

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KCkatiecannon.bsky.social

👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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JCjohncluverius.bsky.social

i just want hundreds of millions of dollars in personal wealth to bullshit people.

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(The ghost of) Dave Karpf
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
14.2k followers2.2k following4.1k posts