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I wonder how much Democratic lawfare mattered in this election?
For me, it made this election feel like an existential must-win for the Republicans. Trump, if he didn't win, was probably going to spend the rest of his life in prison.
And I know Trump started it with the whole "lock her up" thing. He's not innocent. But the fact remains that he never actually tried to lock her up. The Democrats, on the other hand, were really going to do it.
I hope and pray that this election puts an end to the lawfare which is all too common in failed third world democracies.
Political lawfare and the unholy alliance of left-aligned big tech, US IC, and corporate media to try to control information with nascent AI on the immediate horizon were my two motivating factors to hold my nose and support team Trump this go-around.
I don’t know if a Trump administration can sufficiently throttle the DOJ and three letter agencies so that adventures in censorship are no longer an attractive option, but I am happy that there is even a chance of opposition to that particular shoggoth now.
What "big tech" is still left-aligned? tumblr? Elon and thiel alone are a pretty good cross section of heavy manufacturing, social media, finance, and artificial intelligence and they're the most notably political tech people.
There are six large American tech companies: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, and Nvidia.
When you look at who the employees of these companies donate to, it is dominated by Democrats. But the actions of the companies themselves are typically aligned with the left as well.
Google, in particular, has been caught censoring and altering information. Most recently, they were hiding Rogan's interview with Trump. Their AI is also horribly racist against white people.
I saw clips of that in my "youtube recommended" feed and I'm not in the right-wing filter bubble at all. I agree that tech employees lean democratic, but elon (and to a lesser extent zuck and bezos) prove that it's not like companies need to hide their political affiliation if they have one.
As for the LLM thing... c'mon. Their AI is designed to remove legal liability as much as possible. That's not the same thing as being "racist."
Other companies have managed to produce AI that didn't produce the egregiously absurd results that Google's Gemini did.
Google also managed to produce AI that didn't produce those same absurd results. I just tried the "tell me a joke about X people" test and now it's too sensitive to tell jokes about white people too. You could make the argument that whoever performed the RLHF was racist, but it's obvious that google itself clamps down on those people when it notices them.
It got all the way to public release and nobody fixed it. I don't believe for a moment that this is just someone sneaking it through. Having it get that far requires that the entire chain of people involved be either too woke or too intimidated to object.
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