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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Biggest loser? Individually? Might actually be Elon Musk. He’s about to get investigated, hauled in front of Congress, bro wasted a half billion dollars almost on one of the worst losses in recent GOP history, tons of people hate him, and Trump is almost certainly NOT going to bail him out either
Elon is genuinely smart and talented, but has an issue common in such people, that he believes but is not good at everything. I think his active politics is holding him back. Especially if he exits the culture war, and lets politicians take table scraps of his unfathomable wealth (via “fines” and “settlements”), he should be fine; leaving those vices (and I really don’t he’ll be anywhere near poor, or even a mere multi-millionaire), maybe he’ll even find happiness.
I don't think Musk cares about getting to consume more than a tiny fraction of his wealth, but he does care about getting to invest as much of it as possible in building things. SpaceX is very vulnerable to interference of the "oh, you wanted to make even louder noise near a sea lion? we'll be ready to review your environmental impact study in a year or two" variety, and even Tesla can get shut out of Let's Boost EVs From Everyone Except The Guy Making Them All central planning for reasons as hard to avoid as "noticing what unions did to Detroit".
He obviously sucks at politics, but it's hard to fault him for trying after 2021. I love all the photos of Biden literally crossing a (Jeep) Rubicon at that summit. No screenwriter would dare be so on-the-nose.
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