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
@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.