By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026Both work fine, but only one fails gracefully. The two tricks only *appear* the same, but they are fundamentally different. 19/ 2491
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026AI's investor story - and the science fiction tales of AI's eventual capabilities that underpin that investor story - makes heavy use of this conjurer's trick, in which two different outcomes are equated to one another because they resemble each other. 20/ 1666
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026This "ignore the journey, focus on the destination" idea is baked *very deeply* into the way we think about AI. Take the "Turing Test," a complicated and nuanced thought-experiment proposed in 1950. 21/ 1604
