A lot of liberals seem to live in this moral universe where they do need to think of their politicians as The Good Guys. It's seemingly very important to them. I still hear repetitions of Michelle Obama's line that "when they go low we go high," as though liberals are too noble and pure to stoop to the evil politicking the right so distastefully abuses. It's as if they feel that they actually are "represented" by their politicians, parasocially. It's a personal affront.
I don't believe this is specific to liberalism. It was a universally held truth across the political spectrum not many years ago, that when electing a representative you should pick someone who holds values you hold or aspire to. Only recently did people's realisation that 'oh, they're not actually good guys, many are bastards' metastasize into 'let's deliberately pick bastards'.
Rosencrantz2
22d ago
The dinner parties I'm invited to don't have quite that formal a dress code, but very possibly yes. There's a line to do with formality and number of people I guess so for something like a pre wedding gathering where everyone is fully dressed up, we would wear shoes.
Rosencrantz2
23d ago
Yes, almost always. I think shoes inside was more common in the UK back when I was a kid, but I haven't been to any shoe-wearing homes for a long while. We have dinner parties in socks.
Rosencrantz2
24d ago
The fact that the team with the best stats can easily lose in soccer makes it more similar to war.
Rosencrantz2
26d ago
The editorial journey is partly a process of becoming entangled with your editor. It's the commissioning process continued and helps enthuse publishing companies and make them want to back your book. After editing they feel they have a stake in the work, that they've done their due diligence, and have some faith in the book's provenance.
I don't see this part of the role of editor being replaced by AI yet, so I think many editors will still have a job for a little while, even if AI becomes a useful part of the toolset for even decent writers.
For most people current AI is a little bit useful and a lot ominous, whereas the car, say, is a lot useful and only a little bit ominous. For coders this calculus may be different. You point out that it's also useful in law, finance, proofreading and entertainment, and these are indeed not niche fields, but I don't think there are all that many genuinely advantageous use cases of AI in these fields. In most cases one just gets increased convenience with evident downsides as well.
People may well have misunderstood how well AI will serve them personally in the future, when it's even smarter, but that's something reasonable people can disagree about.
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