Quinn Slobodian
speaker
708 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Quinn Slobodian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That was him entering the government and saying, I'm going to reprogram this thing.
This thing is full of bugs.
It's full of like old antiquated hardware and software.
And I'm going to make it work the way that I think a government should work.
I'm going to be tech support in the most radical interventionist way possible.
What happened?
I mean, it was kind of a disaster, right?
I mean, he didn't deliver on any of the fiscal promises.
Yes, he cleared the ground and consolidated the government to plug in a bunch of AI tools from Palantir, Anthropic and Grok, but huge public backlash.
As soon as they tried to actually bring the figure down, people are filling town halls.
People actually were angry about the social contract of Social Security and Medicaid being infringed on.
So the reason why they're fleeing to Argentina, even if they're not, the reason why they might be worried is because their thin view of human nature and politics is actually incorrect.
And actually, you do need to respond to people's everyday lives, their needs.
You do need to meet them halfway.
And they haven't been.
I mean, the AI push has been insane.
For the last year, they've been given a full runway.
And all they've done is say, we need to build Manhattan-sized data centers in your backyard so we can build the machine god that will put you and your grandchildren out of work permanently.
What kind of a way to communicate with people is that?
Well, yes and no.
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