By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026Understanding technofascism's inherent incoherence is vital to making sense of the chaos roiling the AI cult at this moment, wherein you have AI people insisting that there must be a moratorium on AI development lest the word-guessing program awaken and devour the human race. 2346
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026This week on the Better Offline podcast, Ed Zitron discussed the outlandish, science-fiction inspired cult beliefs that dominate AI boardrooms with Adam Becker and Cal Newport: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVS... Becker is well-placed to discuss this.youtube.comStopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport | Better OfflineYouTube video by Better Offline 2273
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026Like the QAA hosts, he was paying close attention to the bizarre beliefs of conspiratorialists long before the rest of us realized that no matter how preposterous their certainty about the imminent machine intelligence Singularity was, these beliefs are sincerely held by very wealthy, driven people. 1201
Gerard Saucier @gsaucier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The terminology introduced around 1:01 -- overequipped unconstrained models -- is a useful clue to where the central AI problem sits. (Less risk in domain-specific applications -- to solve specific problems -- sufficiently enough equipped but highly constrained.) 010