people are sleeping on the last part of his comment:
"the best thing to me, throughout all the history of capitalism or innovation or whatever you want is to just flood the market"
JDAM all the data centers. right now. **urgently**
Cory Doctorow, Chris Hayes, and David Roberts: why do people hate AI i can't figure it out
the AI companies: we are going to take away your ability to think and sell it back to you, that's our plan, literally and explicitly, we are saying it from a stage.
He's using LLM-based spellcheckers, and kind of implying this is new amazing technology.
Presumably to prove that he isn't a "luddite" or whatever.
I'm not going to argue the matter as if I perfectly understand and agree with Cory's position. He can defend himself. I'm just not sure that article says what was implied by @peter's post. It seems like Cory understands exactly why people hate AI, and he's trying to make a distinction between the technology and the application of it.
He was an ass for ranting about "purity culture" and belittling real concerns people have (and why many people hate AI), to quote:
"Doubtless some of you are affronted by my modest use of an LLM. You think that LLMs are “fruits of the poisoned tree” and must be eschewed because they are saturated with the sin of their origins. I think this is a very bad take, the kind of rathole that purity culture always ends up in."
"Purity culture" is a highly derogatory term, implying that people who are anti-AI are some sort of religious cult.
I don't even mind his position on this, honestly I don't care.
But what I do care about is how he said it—by directly insulting people that are not of his opinion.
It's not only a logical fallacy; it's also just bad writing.
I only feel like you might be reading more into his words than he actually believes, but I'm not going to debate with you about it.
@malcircuit @thomasfuchs @jonne his latest post he says AI critics are experiencing "psychosis" because it's just a "normal technology" https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#more-12536
i was posting about it earlier in this thread: https://thepit.social/@peter/116220856874688629
@peter @malcircuit @thomasfuchs I would think that he is both right and that your criticism of his technolibertarianism is correct. (He is quite consistent in it, at least.) The psychosis rhetoric is bit much.
There is nothing exceptional about Silicon Valley technology being absolutely horrendous, so in that sense it is normal. I don't think that he argues that it is therefore neutral, but just that it is one technology in a long line of technologies used for horrendous purposes.
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