Bj�rn1d ago
Bart Schuller
Youtube offered me a Rutger Bregman video recently, about AI. I know the name of the guy and that he's supposed to be one of the good guys.

Within the first minutes it became clear that the guy was thoroughly AI-pilled, misrepresenting the stochastic parrots paper and slamming the authors. I closed the video.

So I’m happy that @Felienne has taken the time to watch the whole thing and write about it.

https://www.felienne.nl/2026-06-13/
Bregman has fully embraced late stage capitalism

Of course, several people sent me Rutger Bregman’s video; "My secret goal, of course, was to provoke a rant from you" someone wrote, haha. Let's go, I guess. I always find it difficult to write about Bregman; I’ve written before about his sexist views on vegetarianism, his

Felienne
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Show threadWalter van Holst1d ago
@bart @Felienne What enormous profits of AI companies though? They are gargantuan money pits at the moment.
Show threadtechnetium1d ago
@bart Rutger Bergman has always been full of shit an himself. See https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkpmyFy3uw_pb-QW3qUG09FwgfutTaa-U for a (very) extensive comment on his "De meeste mensen deugen" by Kasper C. Jansen's Snijtafel (in Dutch)
Rutger Bregmaand

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Show threadThomas Decker1d ago
@bart @Felienne yes that was my sentiment too. This one man show appears to be speedrunning the history of New Labour. He amassed such enormous reserves of confidence and goodwill, just sitting there in the Boston docks waiting for the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
Show threadMcWabbit 🇺🇦🍋🌻🍉1d ago
@bart @Felienne
To me, he had his moment of fame at Davos, but after that it went downhill apparently.
Show threadzznᗺ1d ago

@bart “… Anthropic (which, according to Bregman, kept Mythos out of the hands of the "bad guys").”

Uh-oh. https://mastodon.social/@verge/116749919918173640

@Felienne @bert_hubert

Show threadmarlies 1d ago
@bart @Felienne @bert_hubert youtube recommended me the same video yesterday. I thought it was funny because he was so arrogantly wrong it reminded me of an LLM which is probably why he likes them so much.
Show threadAngelino Desmet1d ago
@bart @Felienne "Everyone else will be redundant" Who you gonna call when your toilet stops flushing, plumber AI? Goddamn.
Show threadAngelino Desmet1d ago

@bart @Felienne He's still against factory farming. Not all is lost.

#Vegan #Vegetarianism https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rutgerbregman_80-billion-reasons-to-look-away-ugcPost-7472227510152466432-yHu9/

Show threadKonosocio1d ago
@bart @Felienne i had the exact same experience. it already started with Ambition, his latest book.
we urgently need tolerance of ambiguity as a competency for public commentators: yes, the tech bros you met in silicon valley are intelligent people, and they are nice, given how they support your school of ambition idea. still they know shit about how people live and how a society that serves all needs to be organised. we are done with getting only crumbs from the main table.