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                                             October 15, 2026


      Cory Doctorow's "The Reverse Centaur's
      Guide to Life After AI" (2026)


      Not an anti-AI book, but an
      anti-AI bubble book, and an            And you have no idea
      anti-AI hype book.                     how much it bugs me
                                             I'm stuck calling this
                                             "AI".  I know better,
      Briefly: what we're looking at         Doctorow knows better,
      is an audacious expenditure of         but here we are with
      wealth for no purpose but to           a standard term that gives
      keep a bubble inflated to prop         away half of the game.
      up the P/E ratio of some large
      companies.

      Something like a third of the
      stock markets numbers right
      now are essentially illusory,
      when the bubble pops, everyone
      will realize we're in a recession,
      and where the panic goes from
      there, it's anyone's guess.



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