By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026Theory-free inference is technically and philosophically exciting. 1171
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026In their quest for a way to neutralize expertise with money, oligarchs inadvertently built a series of powerful scientific instruments that revealed a heretofore unsuspected degree of statistical regularity in the world: pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/s...pluralistic.netPluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1211
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026But the remaining, stubbornly textured and rough edges of reality are where all the value is. The things we already understand about reality are, by definition, *yesterday's news*, and that's all a statistical model can do: project the past into the future. 1287
