Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025)

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The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh: Sweating (the assets) to the oldies.
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The billionaires aren't OK: They're going to give us all Howard Hughes disease.
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Object permanence: KY Republican says the First Amendment protects bribes; Walt Disney's FBI; "The Sapling Cage."
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AI psychosis and the warped mirror: When you stare into the LLM…
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Object permanence: No such thing as shareholder supremacy; Intel's DRM'ed CPU; THIS COMPUTER IS NEVER OBSOLETE.
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Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox: Not what the machine does, but who it does it to.
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Object permanence: Themepunks; Data is a liability; Alexa for landlords; Qanon is the Protocols of the Elders of Zio.
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A weekend's worth of links: Short hits for a long weekend.
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Zuckermuskian solipsism: They just don't think other people are real.
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Object permanence: Heinlein bio; Amazon bans Amazon-critical podcasts; How to Argue With a Racist; Disenshittify or Die; Food arrangement copyrights, Stingrays on steroids.
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LLMs are slot-machines: You only remember the jackpots.
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Object permanence: Heinlein bio; Amazon bans Amazon-critical podcasts; How to Argue With a Racist.
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Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage: They're in for a surprise.
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Goodhart's Law (of AI): When a metric becomes a target, AI can hit it every time.
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Object permanence: Bill Ayers graphic novel; Foxconn in India; Uber loses $4B; Warren Buffet, monopolist.
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Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness.
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Object permanence: Circular batteries; Prison for file-sharing, Satanic abortions.
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