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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026

In 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...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026

But 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.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026

But everything exciting in the future is stuff we don't understand yet. The surprising functionality of theory-free AI is itself an example of this.

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