Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-02-01
Books mentioned on Part Two: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI
Robert tells Ify about the time tech weirdo's recreated Hell using AI and Robert pisses off a VP at Google. Plus: More cult shit!
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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All About Love
All About Love is a profound cultural and philosophical exploration by bell hooks that examines the nature of love, emotional disconnection, and the societal structures that promote lovelessness.
Recommended“But I just finished All About Love by bell hooks, and you know, she often talks about the wandering life with lovelessness and that searching for it and not having it, and I feel like that goes hand in hand with what you’re saying, right?”
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Underground
Discussed“not passive victims they themselves sought to be controlled huki murakami wrote of the members of om shrio the cult who serin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 killed 13 people in his book underground morakami describes most own members as having deposited all their precious personal Holdings of selfhood in the spiritual Bank of the Cults leader”
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Dune
Dune by Frank Herbert is a landmark science fiction epic set on the desert planet Arrakis, exploring complex themes of politics, religion, ecology, and human potential.
Discussed“and obviously the the thing that the Warhammer people are are inspired by is like the butlerian Jihad and dune which is the the more Artful version of that story with less Orcs um which makes it inferior in my mind but I do love Dune”
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