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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026

Skinnerism and solipsism fit together *very* neatly, seducing you into the belief that everyone else is a stimulus-responding automaton, programmed to *think* they have free will: pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/r... 10/

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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026

(Of course, the AI boss version of this is the belief that everyone else is a "stochastic parrot":) xcancel.com/sama/status/... 11/

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Sam Altman (@sama)

i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026

But in truth, *any* corporate boss is prone to solipsism. To maximize corporate profits, you must view other people - employees, suppliers and customers - as inconvenient problems to be solved, not true people with feelings and needs that are co-equal with your own. 12/

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