If you don't align with the party narrative 100%, down to the atom, then you're basically maga.
I don't think people realize this is a major factor that drives people away from progressive politics.
When a conservative meets someone more conservative, they removed about liberals. When a leftist meets someone more left than them they compete with each other to see who's most "pure."
It's doing a shit job at replacing people, it's still too prone to hallucinating for the vast majority of its applications.
In many of the applications where AI has replaced people the promised performance gains never materialized because of the insane amount of babysitting a LLM agent requires.
Doesn't matter if it can write 10 hours of code in 5 minutes if you still need a software dev to troubleshoot the output for 25 hours.
They have like 90% reliability (figure pulled directly from my ass) but they need 99.99% reliability to actually be effectively reliable.
They've burned through all their hype and still haven't made it reliable yet. I think they're not going to get it done before the bubble collapses.
It'll be similar to the dotcom boom, infinite hype implosion collapses the market to a few core players and then those core players will get there over the next 15 years.
Isn't going to disappear but it's absolutely going to fade into the background of day to day life.
Because Republicans don't infight anywhere near as much a Democrats.
I'm pretty convinced that trump has gotten as far as he has because the Democrats parts is like 50/50 corporate shills on Trump's payroll and ideologues.
Of course we never get anything done. Half the party is hellbent on selling out their constituents and the other on performative "moral victories."
Most people who stay in academia do so because they couldn't hack it in the real world.
That's why they get so squirrelly when you ask about work experience, they either don't have any or they blew it super hard and had to return to the academia bubble.
I find that people high up in academics tend to lose touch with reality.
I remember in college one professor ranting and raving about how students worry about grades too much and that we should all focus on actually retaining the material.
It's like yeah that's a pretty thought but 70% of the class was there on scholarship so if we don't make the grade we don't finish and have a mountain of debt.
On a separate occasion the dean of engineering wasted 2 full lectures of ethics class ranting about how we should give to the alumni association and how "it's a privilege to be here so we need to pay it back."
There were over 100 people in that room who were in at least $60k of debt to the school and we still had another semester left before graduation.
These people have brains the size of planets but couldn't comprehend in the slightest how reality gets in the way of their pretty little egalitarian ideals.
What was the joke and what are they not going to see coming?