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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026Those billionaires believe this the same way that they believe that desperate young men are suckers for Joe Rogan's useless and/or dangerous supplements and peptides: pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s... 31/pluralistic.netPluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1503