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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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Inside: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

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baibold

@baibold@mastodon.social replied · 6 days ago

@pluralistic The saddest part about losing sectoral bargaining is that the only way we're going to successfully campaign to get it back is a full general strike, where *every* sector shuts down with the specific demand to repeal Taft-Hartley.

It ties back into how in a world of perfect law enforcement, social progress becomes impossible. The optimal amount of crime in society is not 0.

Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline

@Edelruth@mastodon.online replied · last week

@pluralistic

1. Buying the book the second it comes out.

2. "Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market ...""
My jaw just hit the floor. This pop! is going to hurt.

Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline

@Edelruth@mastodon.online replied · last week

@pluralistic

Reading this.
Paused to say, AI doing imaging evaluations has worried me since I first heard of it, and now you have given a whole other ($ milking) shape to the concern, and I don't know how to finish this thought.
Nightmares ahead.

stephen m 🍞🌹🇵🇸

@marxistvegan@union.place replied · last week

@pluralistic Such a great piece! Looking forward to the book too!

It hit so many things that are so important, I particularly like this part
#AI #AISlop

same goes for all that "AI safety” nonsense, that purports to
concern itself with preventing an AI from attaining sentience
and turning us all into paperclips. First of all, this is
facially absurd. Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-
guessing program won't make it sentient. That's like saying,
"Well, we keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster,
so it's only a matter of time until one of our mares gives
birth to a locomotive.” A human mind is not a word-guessing
program with a lot of extra words. — same goes for all that "AI safety” nonsense, that purports to concern itself with preventing an AI from attaining sentience and turning us all into paperclips. First of all, this is facially absurd. Throwing more words and GPUs into the word- guessing program won't make it sentient. That's like saying, "Well, we keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster, so it's only a matter of time until one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.” A human mind is not a word-guessing program with a lot of extra words.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · last week

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Madison, CT; #Hamburg and #Denver!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

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