By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026Solipsism is why bosses fetishize IP and ignore process knowledge. IP is the part of the job that the worker can explain (and that you can train an AI model on). Process knowledge is the part of the job that can't be abstracted, alienated or commodified. 17/ 1120
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026The very existence of process knowledge is *the* major impediment to de-skilling workers so they can be interchanged with other, more desperate, more timid workers (or with sycophantic AI): pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/p... 18/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Fingerspitzengefühl (08 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 192
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026Of course, there's a whole group of powerful people outside of the political world who are gripped by solipsistic AI fantasies: politicians. 19/ 190