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

The 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/

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Pluralistic: Fingerspitzengefühl (08 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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

Of course, there's a whole group of powerful people outside of the political world who are gripped by solipsistic AI fantasies: politicians. 19/

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

Like social media bosses, politicians deal with people as statistical artifacts who respond to policy inputs with semi-predictable outputs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_... 20/

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Seeing Like a State - Wikipedia

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