A(i) Modest Proposal with Mario Munoz
summary
A riff on Swift that actually proposes selling and eating junior devs as satire, backed by specific counts—120,000 developers produced yearly, 20,000 reserved, 100,000 offered for sale—and sharp links to long‑termist boosterism (A16Z), Sam Alman’s “universal basic compute,” and tech leaders’ energy fantasies. The talk names concrete harms—data theft, creator displacement, carbon and labor costs—calls out transhumanist/eugenic currents, and ends with a practical demand for transparency, regulation, and collective accountability.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Tech labor crisis
- 4:52Harvesting junior devs' brains
- 11:34Tech oligarchs critique
- 18:40AGI, eugenics, capitalism
- 23:36Transparency and action
- 24:39Conclusion & Q&A
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