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EPISODE · Mar 3, 2025 · 1H 1M

Anita Say Chan interview, Predatory Data and Techno-Eugenics, AoT#452

from The Age of Transitions · host Aaron Franz

Anita Say Chan is the author of "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future." Here, she speaks about her book and the very important connection between eugenics and the current Big Tech data regimes that we all live under.  Topics include: Uncle is on vacation, Ochelli Radio Network, Skype going away, 666-HELL, Singularity Summit 2009, eugenics, transhumanism, Bookshop(dot)org, University of Illinois, history of information sciences, data economy, predictive methods, social media, STEM, Silicon Valley, archives, critical humanities, Francis Galton, colonization, against diversity, demise of the West, paranoia, racial demise, datafication of populations, natural hierarchy, numbers, disinformation, non-Nordic classes, immigration laws, criminality, policy lobbying, misuse of science, sterilization laws, patrician classes, California eugenic policies, Stanford, Elon Musk, funding far right political movements, global order, attack on democracy, racial hierarchy, US as model for Nazi Germany eugenics, techno eugenics, false empiricism, divest from public institutions, Thiel, Andreesen, radical elitism, MAGA, promoting procreation of the well born, super genius, biological predetermination, Silicon Valley, Modi, Hindu Nationalism, Facebook in India, social media posts leading to real world violence, mob violence, attacks on minority populations, regulation on AI, public safety, psychopathic cost benefit analysis, taking power back

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