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"'Any system learning from feedback has to divide its effort between exploiting what already scores well and exploring options it hasn’t tried, in case they’re better.'
Computer scientists have long understood that focusing on exploitation to the exclusion of exploration is a trap that locks you into 'the first decent option' so you can never discover the best one."

"'Personalisation under a standard loss function is regression to the collective mean with extra steps.' That is to say, 'regression to the mean' (the tendency of varied things to become more standardized) cannot be avoided w/the standard personalization algorithm. That algorithm is going to play it safe, showing you things that are broadly palatable, and because your choices are constrained to the average, you will choose average things."

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RE: https://cyberpunk.lol/@mxchara/117092734696654321
What do you even do when some stranger just writes batshit fanfic about you all the time? In this imagination, *Cory Doctorow* of all people doesn’t want folks to have agency over their tech?
People…

Cory Doctorow on the AI bubble. https://www.instagram.com/reels/Da3IHttoqAR/

How do we resolve the (seeming) paradox that some skilled workers report wonderful results from their work with AI, while others are full of dire warnings about the lurking defects in their AI-assisted outputs?
Simple: the first group are "centaurs" (humans who are assisted by machines)
and the second are "reverse centaurs" (humans who have been pressed into service as peripherals for machines):
What are we to make of the people who've been fired by …

'If you showed up at Defcon and gave a talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?"'
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I like Cory Doctorow's blogs and also this one,
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/supplemental-income/
But he is wrong in one of the first sentences in my view.
"As a technology, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not e…

Pluralistic: The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/

i agree with some of the critiques aimed at Cory Doctorow on here, but he is a pretty effective communicator and the main thing he has been trying to communicate for like a year now is that every country in the world that is not the United States needs to ditch anti-circumvention laws immediately, to the benefit of basically everybody, and this one hits most of his high points (and generative "AI" not at all) plus it made me realize me why i instinctively skipped most of the popula…

@… :
The most reliable way to lose in politics is letting your adversary set terms.
For example, if you're an artist and you let your boss define the fight over AI,
he'll make it all about
"Intellectual Property" (not labor)
and ask you to help secure a victory that will make him richer and you poorer:

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image The most reliable way to lose in politics is letting your adversary set terms. For example, if you're an artist and you let your boss define the fight over AI, he'll make it all about "IP" (not labor) and ask you to help secure a victory that will make him richer and you poorer: https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/02/scrape-scrope-scrap/ -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read/share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-fre…

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117257854357559339
Si vous devez prendre le temps de lire un thread (ou un billet de blog) aujourd'hui, optez pour celui de Cory Doctorow 🙏

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@… says here
"If you think that property rights are a tool for achieving human rights, then you're on the left".
I think he's radically wrong. Property rights are incompatible with human rights: you can have one or the other, but not both.

Last year, we featured a lengthy interview with tech journalist/science fiction author
Cory Doctorow about his book,
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It.
The prolific Doctorow is back with a provocative new book that serves as a follow-up of sorts,
focusing on AI and related issues:
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
Doctorow doesn’t actually enjoy talking about AI, but he’s constantly being asked to comme…

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.

"The AI bubble is (seemingly) full of contradictions, but – like those baffling coin-tricks – these contradictions often resolve themselves very neatly once you realize that the "contradiction" is actually just two things that appear to be one.
For example, some of the billionaires who put up the first several hundred million for AI are solipsists who just don't believe other people are entirely real and therefore find it easy to believe that AI can do their jobs.&qu…

"…not being able to afford privacy will result in you having even less disposable income, which will mean that you'll have to sell even more of your privacy. Lather, rinse, repeat."
"…private information isn't 'mispriced' - it shouldn't _be_ priced."
https://plurali…