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Trading freedom for convenience comes at a cost.

Are you trapped in a system that drains your creativity, punishes truth-tellers, and protects the status quo? You're dealing with the Guardians of Decay.

Can humanity thrive under the rapid march of Effective Accelerationism, or is it a utopian myth serving Silicon Valley’s elite?

Cory Doctorow and Ben Goertzel discuss the “big data advantage” argument & how Amazon, Facebook and other large networks often use customer data in a way that constitutes anti-competitive practices.

Jim Rutt explains how “Game B” can “parasitize” resources from “Game A” through a “semi-permeable membrane” and describes the benefits of doing so.

Cory Doctorow and Ben Goertzel discuss the current negative “Chokepoint Capitalism” trend, and then speculate on whether a decentralized reputation system might provide any sort of solution.

Cory Doctorow explains how corporate “chokepoints” hurt both creators and consumers and also why stronger copyright enforcement mechanisms only make the problem much worse.

Grace Robot and Desdemona Robot explain the recent book "Chokepoint Capitalism" by Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin about how multimedia conglomerates collude to take advantage of creators.

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What happens when intelligence becomes so cheap that it displaces the very incomes that sustain the market? This episode explores a radical alternative to both doomerism and naive abundance narratives.