Oct 3, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 11 segments
Fresh from the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference in London, J. Hughes and Matteo McDermant ask what a summer of rogue AI should do to left futurism. Matteo describes a round of self-critique…
Matteo McDermantGuest
James HughesHost
It had a huge screen, one of the biggest screens we'd seen for those kinds of events.
He's the author of the book Post-Capitalism, and he gave his post-capitalist pitch with a slide that said, automate all the jobs, which is what we like to hear, and made an explicit call out to the Marxists in the crowd, of which there were probably three.
Some people just arrived because they saw it in an events calendar of some kind.
You know, maybe probably the median of the audience was like, you know, relatively progressive labor.
I've, I would think there are, of course there were some libertarians there and some people, but nobody who I, nobody struck me as, you know, having, you know, weird far-right views or anything.
He said at one point that I was a representative of the worst of American progressivism, by which he meant that I wanted to mutilate children by advocating gender-affirming care.
the guy i didn't even know when he was talking i was like what is this guy i thought he was talking about circumcision or something then i was like oh wait he's anti-trans like i didn't know what he was even talking about yeah until he went on and then i was like mutilate children like
It had a huge screen, one of the biggest screens we'd seen for those kinds of events.
He's the author of the book Post-Capitalism, and he gave his post-capitalist pitch with a slide that said, automate all the jobs, which is what we like to hear, and made an explicit call out to the Marxists in the crowd, of which there were probably three.
Some people just arrived because they saw it in an events calendar of some kind.
You know, maybe probably the median of the audience was like, you know, relatively progressive labor.
I've, I would think there are, of course there were some libertarians there and some people, but nobody who I, nobody struck me as, you know, having, you know, weird far-right views or anything.
He said at one point that I was a representative of the worst of American progressivism, by which he meant that I wanted to mutilate children by advocating gender-affirming care.
the guy i didn't even know when he was talking i was like what is this guy i thought he was talking about circumcision or something then i was like oh wait he's anti-trans like i didn't know what he was even talking about yeah until he went on and then i was like mutilate children like
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