@weeklyshowpodcast: Cory Doctorow offers an explanation of what happens when machines give orders to people verses when people give orders to machines. (7/29/26)

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boardgamesnob
BoardGameSnob :
Also, when the bubble bursts, those of us left get to look forward to trying to figure out the shittiest code ever known to man. AI picks the weirdest most convoluted ways to write code, and I've seen old perl code.
2026-08-29 16:30:37
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miketheidealist
Mike Brand :
Now apply this to war when AI is generating targets faster than humans can possibly keep up, resulting in the humans in the loop essentially being rubber stamps, influenced by confirmation bias and pressure from the top. There's no way humans can effectively cross-reference intelligence fast enough. So you bomb a girl's school in Iran.
2026-08-28 15:38:59
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mapchat
Benji @ Mapchat.social :
Didn’t realize Corey wrote scifi
2026-08-28 19:06:21
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maevis85
Maevis :
Wouldn't a reverse centaur be a minotaur? It's not a perfect reversal, but close enough
2026-08-28 16:00:53
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courteouscreature
Courteous Creature :
Android v. Cyborg
2026-08-28 20:04:26
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ericlook
Eric Look🪞🫳🗝️ Revolution :
stop ai before the second dark ages
2026-08-28 16:10:15
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julian.guam
Julian.Guam :
I mean really capitalism incentivizes the machines to go fast enough to balance the marginal costs due to things like injuries with the additional production units created by exceeding a safer limit.
2026-08-28 23:51:04
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neoteotihuacan
neoteotihuacan :
Silicon Valley ran for decades as "disruptors." They popped in and reorganized every industry they could get their hands on, for better AND worse. But the AI bubble is the first time that this tech sector is disrupting itself. It's not going to be a good time.
2026-08-28 16:17:55
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justincaselucky38
Justin Case :
he said reverse centaur and for some reason I pictured horse legs on top and human legs on the bottom
2026-08-28 21:59:14
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mysphonia_dystopia
Themustacheman :
books are great my friend but they are just imaginary. he is putting way to much on what is supposed to be a tool. worse offering no proper education on use of tools and their proper application with critical thinking in mind. he just doing what everyone else does. doom and gloom. it makes sense he writes science fiction
2026-08-28 16:27:45
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pizzaking009
Maxwell :
Curious how is it different from a common factory job
2026-08-28 15:35:40
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darageth
Richard Edgemon :
Centaur and Master Blasted finally an analogy I can understand
2026-08-28 22:25:20
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nahlanoir
Nahla Noir :
Because Amazon is bad at automation. It's one big R&D project that their customers are paying for
2026-08-28 21:51:23
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wazewhoa
wazewhoa :
Doomscrolling TT looking for a pod prompt. To Cory I go!
2026-08-28 19:06:08
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johnknight365
baconcheesecake :
It’s always been the problem with machines is for the people tending them being crushed
2026-08-28 14:51:23
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are_you_local
are_you_local :
Like the way robots are treated in Star Wars 😉
2026-08-28 14:29:33
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zaimokoya
zaimokoya :
Cory is brilliant
2026-08-28 17:12:15
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notreadytobethisold
DogCatWoof :
OMG. AI is trying to make people (coders in this case) peripherals. People should write the tests, review the code, and write super detailed documentation to feed the AI. And like you said, they should do it all faster because the conveyor belt wants to run as fast as it can, and is overwhelming. very much like Lucy and Ethel.
2026-08-28 17:19:15
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1337prof
1337Prof :
Centaur vs Minotaur!
2026-08-28 17:01:41
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jadedtlc
😻JadedTLC 베키😃🐻🍯🍀 :
I was one of those workers
2026-08-28 18:38:16
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shizzlestix
shizzle_sticks :
Flusser “The lever strikes back” read it.
2026-08-28 18:06:49
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whetlaundry
whet :
I love Lucy
2026-08-28 16:28:17
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mapachismo
Mapachiiin :
I never thought of Bojack as a
2026-08-28 19:27:31
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luminariaudio
Luminaria 🇺🇸🇨🇦 :
Centaur, not Cyborg?
2026-08-28 19:06:17
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patrick.ebert1
Patrick Ebert :
and then comes the robots.
2026-08-28 17:08:26
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