Spotlight: How Zombie Values Infect Society

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Zombies are the perfect metaphor to explain something Tristan and Aza have been thinking about lately that they call 'zombie values.' In this Spotlight episode, we talk through some examples of how zombie values limit our thinking around tech harms. Our hope is that by the end of this episode, you'll be able to recognize the zombie values that walk amongst us, and think through how to upgrade those values to meet the realities of our modern world.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Tristan, and this is Aiza, and this is a scene from the classic
0:11.0	1968 horror zombie flick, Night of the Living Dead.
0:14.8	So why are we playing you a clip from a zombie movie?
0:23.9	Well, zombies are a key figure in Haitian folklore, as well as pop culture, and we sort of
0:28.8	all know their story.
0:30.2	They bite someone that we love, and it turns them into a creature seeking our brain.
0:36.6	We've decided that that's sort of the perfect metaphor to explain something Tristan and I've
0:40.1	been thinking a lot about.
0:41.5	We call them zombie values.
0:43.7	So in this spotlight episode, we're going to explain what zombie values are and then
0:47.7	give some examples.
0:49.1	And our hope is that by the end of this episode, you'll be able to recognize the zombie values
0:52.7	that walk amongst us and help us think through how to upgrade those values to meet the realities
0:57.3	of our modern world.
0:58.8	So let's dive in.
0:59.8	What is a zombie value?
1:02.2	So a zombie value is an idea or a value that sounds really good and is really good.
1:07.5	It points at something that's really worth protecting, but the way we talk about it is no
1:13.6	longer adequate.
1:15.0	And because the way we talk about protecting the thing the value points at isn't actually
1:19.9	protecting anymore.
1:21.2	If we just blindly follow it, it will lead to catastrophe.
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