Cory Doctorow on Nostr: None of these stories are plausible, which raises an urgent question: why have the ...

None of these stories are plausible, which raises an urgent question: why have the world's wealthiest investors been so eager to hand over *trillions* to finance this bubble?

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people.

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