Revenge Of The Jocks? Sports Bros Take On The Tech Bros & Tech Dystopia.
About this episode
The episode discusses the growing discomfort among 'normies' regarding the technological advancements and visions proposed by tech leaders, particularly in the context of sports culture pushing back against these ideas.
It’s kind of like a reverse ‘Revenge Of The Nerds’ as the normies are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the dystopian vision of self appointed technological ‘masters of the universe’ like Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Theil an Howard Lutnick. It all started when Sam Altman said THIS in an interview with Cory Levy, the founder of Z Fellows: “I think we are close to a world where you have, like, a descendant of ChatGPT watch your computer screen all of the time. Watch every meeting you’re in – record every call, everything like that – have perfect context of your whole life, everything you see. You choose what information you want it to have, but you can connect it to your texts or email or docs or Slack,” Well the Sports Bros weren’t down with this as The Comeback Reports here: “Only the biggest losers alive actually want this,” wrote B.W. Carlin, founder of Bad Brain Digital Consulting, who previously worked for Barstool and Sports Illustrated” “Has he ever listened to anything he says? Cause this sounds alarming. Not helpful,” wrote longtime NFL and NBA writer Scott Kacsmar in a post. Could this represent a new level of resistance? First the conspiracy theorists, then…
People in this episode
Host: Shannon Joy
Topics covered
- sports
- technology
- dystopia
- resistance
- cultural commentary
Keywords
- dystopian technology
- sports culture
- resistance
- Sam Altman
- Elon Musk
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Organizations: Bad Brain Digital Consulting, Barstool, Sports Illustrated
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