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  • It’s not a very good analogy. AOC has two choices in American politics: Democrat or Republican. She may not be a perfect fit for the Democratic Party, but she’s significantly closer to them than she is to the Republican Party (even before MAGA).

    Schwarzenegger had the same options. He would have fit fine in the Democratic Party, but he, for whatever reason, chose the Republican party; a political party that has been overtly racist for as long as any of us have been alive.

    Maybe he had some good reason to throw his support behind the Republican party pre-MAGA, but it is still a valid criticism that he made that decision.

    Valid, but I have to admit, it’s not a very useful criticism. What’s he going to do; time travel back and prevent himself from making that decision?




  • This is something I don’t think people are internalizing about (agentic) AI. Its disruption doesn’t stem from its “intelligence”, but in its persistence. We are very rapidly approaching an era of infinite agency, but our entire society is designed around people having limited agency. Everything assumes that a vast majority of people won’t bother to use their agency. Sending complaints to local government agencies, waiting in line for concert tickets, starting an online business, submitting pull requests, etc.; they all assume most people won’t bother; they’ll choose to use their limited agency on something else. Agentic AI will blow that all up; you’ll be able to point the AI at a goal on your behalf and not think about it again.

    AI slop will hypothetically vanish as AI improves, but that doesn’t do anything to address the fact that we’ll all have effectively infinite agency.




  • It negates any map that was designed specifically to counteract racism, because considering racism is, by definition, taking race into account. (According to their logic)

    Notably, specifically designing a district map to give a specific political party an edge is not illegal. This will be a race to the bottom and all voters should be pissed. The natural end result will be states with GOP-controlled legislature will craft maps such that only the GOP can win and Dems will have to do the same to even hope to keep the playing field level.

    People all across the political spectrum will lose any chance at representation, depending on how their political leanings compare with the legislature of their state.