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

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@bart @Felienne "Everyone else will be redundant" Who you gonna call when your toilet stops flushing, plumber AI? Goddamn.