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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

While the AI bubble is primarily a *material* phenomenon (driven by the calculation that bosses are easy marks for a sales pitch for replacing workers with apps), there is an inescapable ideological component to it: the desire for a world without people in it: pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/v... 1/

A Dore engraving of Samson toppling the temple, in which a loincloth-clad Samson pushes aside the columns holding up an Egyptian(ish) temple as people flee the collapsing roof. The image has been altered: Samson's head has been replaced with the head of a pulp magazine robot, while in the background trudge away many other robots. Samson is gold-tinted, and has been limned with a nova of golden light. The rest of the image has been hand-tinted.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/p... 2/

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John Smith @jsmithitguy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

You can no sooner replace a person with AI than you can replace a carpenter with a hammer. AI companies would do much better if they market their products as productivity tools. And CEOs would do much better if they realized their people are the source of their power.

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Andy Barnett @hof1991.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Also the tech lords’ longtermism views means the lives of actual current people don’t matter. app.thestorygraph.com/books/d5039d...

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More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker

How Silicon Valley's heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions--with escaping death, emergent A...

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