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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

It gets worse for social media bosses like Zuck, for whom AI's appeal is ending socializing on social media, swapping your mulish friends for pliable chatbots who organize their interactions with you to maximize your usage and thus the number of ads you see: pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/b... 18/

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Pluralistic: Social media without socializing (19 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

I think billionaire solipsism can account for much of the malinvestment in this obvious bubble, but I don't think it's the whole story. Rather, I think there's a whole cohort of investors who don't believe in AI, but believe that *other* people will believe in AI. 19/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

This is a well-established investment principle. As Keynes wrote, the point of investing isn't necessarily to pick the most beautiful contestant to win the beauty contest - it's to pick the contestant that the *other judges* will hand the crown to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesi... 20/

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Keynesian beauty contest - Wikipedia

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