Cory Doctorow
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115 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is the frightening thing about AI.
It's not like that we're going to teach too many words to the word guessing program and it's going to wake up and become God and turn us into paperclips or something.
It's that seven firms, six of whom are losing money to the seventh one.
represent 35% of the S&P 500, the most important financial index in the world, they are all passing around the same $100 billion IOU and pretending that it's in all of their bank accounts at once, which to call that accounting fraud is to do violence to the noble accounting fraud.
And at the same time,
Every new generation of AI is less profitable than the previous one.
Every new customer for AI costs the AI companies money.
And every time the AI companies have a customer that uses their products, they lose even more money.
Meanwhile, the actual hard assets, the data centers, the GPUs, they're being replaced every like two to three years.
And I think we underestimate just how much of that hard capital has to be thrown away with every generation of the technology.
And often it's the case that to retrofit a data center would cost more than scraping it to the foundation slab and building a new one when you buy new chips for it.
So all of this stuff is basically disposable.
And you add it all up and it just doesn't turn into a business you could bail out.
It's not like buying a bunch of distressed real estate assets that when you're done are real estate that people can live in.
It's like...
Buying a toxic waste dump that's on fire and you don't know how to put out the fire and every year you have to commit more resources to evacuating people from the region because it's poisoning their soil and their air.
Yeah, for sure.
You know, this isn't the first time labor and automation have come into conflict.
And one of its bedrocks is that when labor drives automation adoption, typically it's in service to making things better.
Workers want to improve their outputs.
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