By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026That limitation is both a *technical* fact, but even more importantly, it's a fact about theory-free AI's *political economy*: about the limitations of trading off *expertise* for *money*. 1273
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026Because whatever else theory-free inference is, it is a way to swap the bottleneck of "before we can use a computer to help us do something, we need to find an expert who can explain how that thing works"; for a different bottleneck. 1234
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026That bottleneck is: "before we can use a computer to help us do something, we must spend an enormous amount of money on computing power to find statistical relationships between how things work." 1295
