Podcast: why the left dismissed AI as hype — stochastic parrots and a comforting story
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-11-08
In a CogRev Podcast episode, Garrison Lovely explains why the left wrote off AI as hype: deference to the "stochastic parrots" PhDs, pattern-matching AI to crypto and the metaverse, and a "comforting story." He also frames the capitalist endgame: "take the share of returns to capital to 100% and labor to 0."
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