By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026It's why our hearts race in sympathy with the characters in a book or on a screen. It's the automatic and irresistible starting point for every encounter with a poem, a song, a book or a sculpture. 1271
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026It's the most fundamental difference between a sculpture of a tree and a tree: the tree grew all on its own, while the sculpture was made, on purpose, by another person with another mind. 1270
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026This reflex to attribute intention explains why AI is so controversial, compelling and *eerie*. Mark Fisher defines eeriness as "when there's something present where there should be nothing, or if there is nothing present when there should be something": www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-lang...programmablemutter.comLarge Language Models are UncannyLike capitalism, LLMs are haunted: voids that seem to speak 2408
