By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026The AI bubble is (seemingly) full of contradictions, but - like those baffling coin-tricks - these contradictions often resolve themselves very neatly once you realize that the "contradiction" is actually just *two things* that appear to be one. 28/ 1463
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026For example, *some* of the billionaires who put up the first several hundred million for AI are solipsists who just don't believe other people are entirely real and therefore find it easy to believe that AI can do their jobs. 29/ 18815
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026*Other* billionaires are cynics who think that bosses can be sold defective worker-replacing chatbots because they're credulous suckers for that pitch. 30/ 18311