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Inside: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop…

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https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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kleines Filmröllchen 📞5534

@marxistvegan
Great speech, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves:

> The AI Safety people say they are worried that AI is going to end the world

I’m just going to stop you right there and point you to some of Robert Miles’s essays: youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI

because it’s not about that, and he (much better than I could) will give you several reasons to care about AI Safety before AGI is even plausible.


Robert Miles AI Safety

Videos about Artificial Intelligence Safety Research, for everyone. AI is leaping forward right now, it's only a matter of time before we develop true Artificial General Intelligence, and there are a lot of different ways that this could go badly wr…
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stephen m 🍞🌹🇵🇸

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Thanks for sharing this and I will take a look.

I will say I think what is important and that Cory raises quite well is understanding the power dynamics of this, which is we need more unions and more negotiation on this from the workers side that is the true safety to the workers no matter the industry.

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Nicole Parsons

When does "alternative money" just become the equivalent of worthless coal town company scrip?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_…

Coal barons **hated** FDR for outlawing company scrip in 1938.
dol.gov/general/aboutdol/histo…

Now company scrip is back again. With all its pernicious uses.

When a company can fire you just before you vest your stock options, were you really paid for all that under-the-table overtime?

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Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage

By Jonathan Grossman When he felt the time was ripe, President Roosevelt asked Secretary of Labor Perkins, 'What happened to that nice unconstitutional bill you had tucked away?'
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When a company can manipulate the value of their own stock at will or rewrite cryptocurrency transactions, can a worker use its valuation for tax purposes?

For car loans or mortgages? This is house-of-cards economic fragility that requires workers to participate in a fraud or they don't get paid at all.

When does cryptocurrency & stocks become the same as exchanging a counterfeit $20 dollar bill?

When George Floyd did it, it cost him his life.

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When private equity hedge funds & tech gurus do the same, it goes largely unnoticed.
nytimes.com/2021/04/19/us/geor…

When Peter Thiel or Elon Musk does the equivalent, it's a "brilliant strategy".

reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-te…

cnn.com/2024/06/04/business/mu…

business-standard.com/world-ne…

politico.com/news/2022/01/21/c…

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BitcoinWorld Revealing: Peter Thiel’s Strategic Bitmine Stake Reduction Shakes Crypto Markets In a surprising move that’s capturing attention across financial markets, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has made a significant adjustment to its cryptocurrenc…
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Fitz Bushnell

"It's because in a creative market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two mobile app stores, and a single company that controls all the ebooks and audiobooks, giving a creative worker extra rights to bargain with is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money."

I gotta work that into a conversation sometime soon.

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John Griffith

By this analysis, organizations/corporations that buy into the #AI sales pitch and replace their workforce seem likely to collapse due to incompetence. Those that maintain their human expertise would thrive because of decreased competition. This, of course, assumes that civilization doesn't completely fall apart. The massive economic power of the big monopolies coupled with incompetence is really scary. Kind of similar to the Trump administration.
I need to think more about it
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