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AI Summary
- Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu present competing theories on how the internet declined from its early promise into ragebait, sponsored content, and AI-generated slop
- Doctorow's 'enshittification' framework and Wu's 'age of extraction' thesis are explored as explanations for how tech platforms conquered the economy
- The episode discusses what policies could meaningfully improve digital life and addresses fundamental problems plaguing the modern internet