By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026Farrell and Shalizi forcefully make the point that statecraft is *not* a set of discrete problems with provably correct answers that must be solved. 43/ 170
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026Government is a matter of making choices between mutually exclusive policies that have benefits and costs, and those costs and benefits befall different groups differently. 44/ 182
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026The idea that you can simply feed every fact about a society into a chatbot and order it to "solve" the nation reveals a profound ignorance about the nature of political contests. 45/ 1100
