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@bart@smop.fyi

2026-06-14 20:45 UTC

Youtube offered me a Rutger Bregman video recently, about AI. I know the name of the guy and that he's supposed to be one of the good guys. Within the first minutes it became clear that the guy was thoroughly AI-pilled, misrepresenting the stochastic parrots paper and slamming the authors. I closed the video. So I’m happy that @Felienne@mastodon.social has taken the time to watch the whole thing and write about it. https://www.felienne.nl/2026-06-13/

Replies (8)

  • @whvholst@eupolicy.social 2026-06-14 21:04

    @bart@smop.fyi @Felienne@mastodon.social What enormous profits of AI companies though? They are gargantuan money pits at the moment.

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  • @technetium@mastodon.nl 2026-06-14 21:29

    @bart@smop.fyi Rutger Bergman has always been full of shit an himself. See https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkpmyFy3uw_pb-QW3qUG09FwgfutTaa-U for a (very) extensive comment on his "De meeste mensen deugen" by Kasper C. Jansen's Snijtafel (in Dutch)

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  • @bart@smop.fyi @Felienne@mastodon.social yes that was my sentiment too. This one man show appears to be speedrunning the history of New Labour. He amassed such enormous reserves of confidence and goodwill, just sitting there in the Boston docks waiting for the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.

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  • @McWabbit@tenforward.social 2026-06-14 23:12

    @bart@smop.fyi @Felienne@mastodon.social To me, he had his moment of fame at Davos, but after that it went downhill apparently.

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  • @buzz@social.lol 2026-06-15 05:55

    @bart@smop.fyi “… Anthropic (which, according to Bregman, kept Mythos out of the hands of the "bad guys").” Uh-oh. https://mastodon.social/@verge/116749919918173640 @Felienne@mastodon.social @bert_hubert@mastodon.nl

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  • @marlies@tacobelllabs.net 2026-06-15 09:37

    @bart@smop.fyi @Felienne@mastodon.social @bert_hubert@mastodon.nl youtube recommended me the same video yesterday. I thought it was funny because he was so arrogantly wrong it reminded me of an LLM which is probably why he likes them so much.

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  • @stardust@fosstodon.org 2026-06-15 12:06

    @bart@smop.fyi @Felienne@mastodon.social He's still against factory farming. Not all is lost. #Vegan #Vegetarianism https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rutgerbregman_80-billion-reasons-to-look-away-ugcPost-7472227510152466432-yHu9/

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  • @konosocio@mastodon.online 2026-06-15 14:50

    @bart@smop.fyi @Felienne@mastodon.social i had the exact same experience. it already started with Ambition, his latest book. we urgently need tolerance of ambiguity as a competency for public commentators: yes, the tech bros you met in silicon valley are intelligent people, and they are nice, given how they support your school of ambition idea. still they know shit about how people live and how a society that serves all needs to be organised. we are done with getting only crumbs from the main table.

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