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The fear porn around AI right now I would categorize (oversimplified) into Democrats who see labor and vote constituency shrinking and Republicans fixated on dystopian Terminator scenarios. The latter has some reasonable concerns. We already have bills passed and systems designed that do not permit remote control of sensitive nuclear environments and require hardwired human in the loop activities. So on to left wing fear porn. What do they actually fear? They fear that people are noticing. One of the biggest crimes in 1984 was noticing. Real life is stranger than fiction. People are noticing. It is becoming obvious that AI will do a lot of good (more below), so they cook up doomerism when the benefits cannot be explained away. Super intelligence and automation cut the need for a couple things. Mainly it's: H1Bs in basic accounting, recruiting, technology, product management, and other desk jobs. That shrinks the pipeline of imported white collar labor that was never scarce in the first place. It also puts a lot of displaced American men back in contention for those seats. That is frightening if your coalition likes a workforce that scores higher in agreeableness and does not push back on HR theology. Yes ma'am, men are evil, sounds good, please don't revoke my visa. A lot of white men will not play that game at the same rate. We are too disagreeable. So the fear is not only jobs. It is losing a compliant staffing model in big tech and corporate America, then having to hire from a pool that votes and talks differently. Kneecapping AI is a convenient excuse to keep extending visas the work no longer requires. AI and automation also cut the need for illegal labor in Uber, Uber Eats, and the rest of the convenience stack. When cars drive themselves and robots can fetch the bag, a lot of those jobs stop being necessary. Maybe @elonmusk puts Optimus in Cybercabs. Maybe he just sells the fleet layer and lets other people build the DoorDash type services on top. Either way, you do not need a permanent imported underclass to deliver an Oreo Blizzard while you are on episode nine of a Netflix binge and refuse to stand up. The bots will not ghost you over a poor tip while it waits for you. That is frightening to @BernieSanders and his far left communists because the scarcity story they sell starts to look optional. You can run a high output country with technology and the people already born here. Their preferred problems get smaller and their narratives harder to sell. Then the question is why you still need their program. We have heard this script before. If we get rid of slaves, who farms. If we allow tractors, what happens to field jobs. If we get rid of gas station attendants, who pumps the gas. If we get rid of typewriters, who types for the C suite. Never align with people whose business model is keeping the problem alive. They care about power, not advancement. Problem solving ends the Karpman drama triangle. Problem perpetuation keeps them in it. That is most of the latest regulatory capture AI fear mongering.

Charlie was always full of class and grace. Chappelle as it turns out, is a classless piece of shit.

Trumps first order of business on the first day of the next session should be a blanket pardon of anyone involved with either of his campaigns or presidencies. Second order of business should be stepping down immediately after blanket pardons and then he should receive one from Vance. @JDVance can then make the next two years be about anything but Trump, and 2028 can be about a post Trump future. If Trump finishes his term the Democrats will hold all three chambers in 2028 because the nation will want to get Trump fully out of its system which I think will take one congressional term removed from Trump, 26-28 or 28-30, take your pick. I count 2024 as part of the nation getting Trump out of its system, electing him a second time was finishing business. If he steps down early January it will be disastrous for the Democrats to make their body of work "exposing Trump" for two years because it will be a waste of time given the pardons and the 28 campaign will be about them not listening to their mandate which is why republicans lost on 26. Because Ahab needs his whale, I can see Trump sticking around, and on the offhand he Ford's what I suggest, I can see the dems making 26-28 about going after a fully pardoned and immune Trump and Trump admin. The only thing I'm sure of is both groups won't do what's right.

I want this to be true.