By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026There's the dystopian version ("The majority of jobs in the economy will be done by our chatbots, and the employers who previously employed those workers will split the wage savings with us"). 11/ 129821
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026None of these stories are plausible, which raises an urgent question: why have the world's wealthiest investors been so eager to hand over *trillions* to finance this bubble? 12/ 235928
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/ 6923231
Ray @raymondgibson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceler...en.wikipedia.orgAccelerationism - Wikipedia 000
