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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when you get killed by the robot, it's actually your fault for not being considerate enough of the robot's limitations, right?
You were just, you know, the hypothetical example of a person on a go stick expands to whatever it was that person was doing that we can use to legitimate the use of the road by robots to the exclusion of people.
Yeah.
And, you know, I think that the traffic cone thing is actually quite useful in as much as it shatters the illusion that the car can drive.
really solve the problem of driving and navigating the roads, that it's very easy to make things that work well if you don't care how they fail.
You can build cars that can deal with all of the anticipatable solutions and pilot themselves to traffic.
But just like as with so many things, the last 10% is the hard part.
Dealing with the unanticipatable, dealing with the contingency, dealing with the things that a human being might struggle with but could fail more gracefully with,
That's much harder.
And when we're talking about two-ton robots that travel at 90 miles an hour, that last 10% really starts to matter.
Yeah.
So obviously the idea of studying how workers and automation connect to one another, it's not new.
Right.
It's, you know, the foundation of science fiction is really asking these questions.
The first science fiction novel, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, was an allegory in support of the Luddites.
Mary Shelley was a Luddite supporter, as was common of the day.
The Luddites were really, really popular.
It was only afterwards that the history got rewritten by the people who defeated them.
The Luddites were skilled technical workers, right, to work in a textile industry.
on a textile machine, you needed a seven-year apprenticeship.
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