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Midterms Megathread

Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.

The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.

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“Fixing” things is easy provided you’re willing to go through the necessary pain to reach a solution. And the presumption that you can treat a problem without changing the things people don’t want to change is politically impossible everywhere but at the margins (which is why so much political “progress” is marginal). When people try and establish a local wind farm in Germany to help with climate change, there are local protests. When people don’t want to execute illegal entrants into the country, there’s little incentive to pay heed to the law. Political solutions are remarkably easy in the abstract. People just don’t want to pay the associated costs for it.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you suggesting that the simple way to fix the economy is to build more wind farms and execute anyone who protests? That seems both unconstitutional and... not very useful.