Cory Doctorow has an interesting thinking-persons' guide against AI.
- Cory Doctorow has an interesting thinking-persons' guide against AI.
- A few nuggets:
- Centaur vs. Reverse Centaur: Machine-assisted humans (good) vs. humans as meat peripherals for uncaring machines (the actual AI business model)
- The Growth Stock Trap: Monopolies must inflate endless bubbles (video, crypto, metaverse, AI) to avoid catastrophic stock revaluation—winning the bet is secondary to keeping the story alive.
- Daniel Messier has a critique.
- He compares Doctorow's piece to telling people in the 90s not to bother learning computers.