Meanwhile, Anthropic is on a $50 billion run rate and raising at a $900b valuation. We look back to the dawn of the assembly line, when workers suffered from “Forditis," a condition of despair caused by a lack of agency and the pressure to keep up with a pace set by machines. Plus: learning from Ferrari, Ryan Cohen's use of the information space for his long-shot takeover bid for eBay, the decline of drinking as structural phenomenon, the end of the road for BuzzFeed, and Italian rock bands.
* Troy Young’s People vs Algorithms newsletter
* Brian Morrissey’s The Rebooting newsletter
* Alex Schleifer’s Human Computer
* Follow Alex, Brian and Troy on Twitter
Chapters:
* 00:00 Open
* 00:38 Welcome
* 04:14 Ferrari Scarcity Mythology
* 11:27 From Ferrari To Anthropic
* 21:33 AI Backlash And Forditis
* 27:19 Thinking Machines New Interface
* 38:13 Narratives Beat Policy
* 41:23 Ryan Cohen Media Populism
* 48:01 BuzzFeed Byron Allen Deal
* 58:37 Good Product
* 01:09:08 Credits
