Alignment
<p>Benjamin Bratton writes about world-spanning intelligences, grinding geopolitical tectonics, “accidental megastructures” of geotechnical cruft, the millienia-long terraforming project through which humans rendered an earth into a world, and the question of what global-scale order means in the twilight of the Westphalian nation-state.</p> <p>Candidly, if either of us were to recommend a book to help you understand the present state of ‘politics’ or ‘technology’, we’d probably start with Bratton’s <i>The Stack</i> — written 10 years ago, but still very much descriptive of our world and illuminative of its futures.</p> <p>If the first 10 minutes are too “tech industry” for you — just skip ahead. The whole conversation is seriously fire, and it spikes hit after hit of takes on privacy, bias, alignment, subjectivity, the primacy of the individual … all almost entirely unrepresented within the Discourse.</p>
Authors: Marek Poliks, Roberto Alonso Trillo
Contributors: Benjamin H. Bratton
Part of: Disintegrator Podcast