By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026Using AI to root AI-generated bureaucratic appeals sacrifices the system's putative purpose - delivering services - in the name of defending that service from abuse and misuse of the system's resources. 31/ 1260
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026As the pioneering cybernetician Stafford Beer famously wrote, "the purpose of a system is what it does." If your bureaucracy is more concerned with fighting fraud than delivering service, then it isn't a service delivery system at all - it's a service *denial* system. 32/ 322369
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026As Farrell writes, the people of Twopp can tell you how this ends - in a war of giant robots in which we are all collateral damage. 33/ 1310
pollycal.bsky.social @pollycal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I haven’t read a reference to Stafford Beer since the late 70s. I had a professor who was a huge fan and I read some of Beer’s books. What a great thinker. 231
