Cory Doctorow
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2,714 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And by the way, say we did pull off – and like all the best Americans, I'm Canadian, which is why I'm saying we here –
But say we did pull off a national AI, what we would have won in winning this was the right to lose money faster than anyone's ever lost money on anything ever before.
Again, this feels like a very strange way of describing a project of like nation building, right?
We've managed to neglect the thing that is our existential risk in order to lose money does feel like a weird pitch for sovereignty, right?
Yeah.
So, I mean, you will remember that Musk has now twice done demos of his robots.
And the first one literally turned out to be a person in a robot suit.
They were like, how did they get a robot to dance so well?
Just a person in a robot suit.
The second one was a remote-controlled robot, right?
And again, it was like, it's an autonomous robot bartender, not really autonomous, right?
And again, like, it's very...
It's very smoke and mirrors-y.
Like, it's almost too on the nose.
This keeps happening.
I was just talking with someone about this mailing list I've been on forever and ever that's of Indian geeks.
It started during the PC boom in India.
And so it's all these old technologists.
And they have all these wry jokes about AI.
So one of them is that AI stands for absent Indians.
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