Michael Utz
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LLM's don't hallucinate, they generate errors. But they are unusually good at making humans hallucinate. We imagine the LLM like the Velveteen Rabbit that just needs a little love to come alive. A nice story. Not a good basis for policy. pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s... @doctorow.pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Science will always be a target for movements that rely on constructing their own version of reality.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2d agoIt really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
Help i made malware and I used it to hack several enormous companies I guess there's nothing anyone can do until we pass new laws In the meantime I'll let you watch over my shoulder while i do it again and again Also give me more money or I'll hack you all
Fewer startups, more co-ops. Fewer founders, more communities.
Joined Ed Elson on Prof G Markets to give my take on the AI safety debate, explain why it’s attracted so much attention, and point out how catastrophically the media has missed on this story. youtu.be/dKhzcKRQRiQ?...
AI Insiders Keep Saying We’re In Danger — Where’s The Evidence?
YouTube video by Prof G Markets
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I’m tired after years of FOMOngering from Silicon Valley over NFTs, Crypto, Metaverse, etc, and now AI. I‘m happy to make tech that helps humans feel joy in the real world: delightful experiences, time savers, or relationship builders.
The silence from industry in the face of concerted attacks on US competitiveness has been disgraceful. Will this finally wake them up? Or will they just offshore all skilled work? And yes, this is a constitutional crisis if the executive can apply a “ridiculous fee” veto to any legislation.
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · last wk.The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
The people that brought you The Problem proudly present... The Solution.
One thing I love about @doctorow.pluralistic.net is that if you read him or listen to his interviews enough, he will (naturally) recycle certain talking points, but it never feels repetitive because he often finds a different, creative way to say it. This video was, unsurprisingly, delightful.
This is how the AI bubble pops | Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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Another banger from @doctorow.pluralistic.net . Each part is a page turner.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons
These guys are weird, annoying, and ruining the world. Also they're spending millions on your opponents. They're villains you should be talking about every day
Seems to me a decent component of a national campaign right now would be rescuing tech from the deranged cult of apocalyptic freaks who have conned their way to the top of it
All I ask is one mainstream story about Elon Musk funding Republicans foreground his actual, well documented beliefs.
DAILY REMINDER: Never stop talking about Epstein ISR old white billionaire maniacs.
Two conspiracy theorists walk into a bar. You can't tell me that was just a coincidence, man.
If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth.
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view
I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.
"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?
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Cory's got the goods, and he's got Zuck's number. It's almost strange hearing people like Cory talk & write so eloquently while still being so grounded in real human needs and desires.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo agoI'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you experience. 1/
DUOLINGO: You have triple XP for the next 10 minutes! Also @duolingoverde.bsky.social : 2 minutes of which will be spent “opening chests”.
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
