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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In the story,if you speak the name Shai LeBeouf aloud, Actual Cannibal Shia LeBeouf appears and kills you and many other people in the immediate vicinity. In that chapter, the antagonist exploits this fact to use the name as a cognitohazard suicide bomb.
I am using the reference as shorthand for actively working to destroy the existing sociopolitical structure in ways that are notably effective and difficult to reverse. Sociopolitical scorched earth tactics, literal scorched earth too where possible. The last several years are best modelled as a massive, distributed search for ways to hurt the outgroup as badly as possible without getting in too much trouble; this process is information-based, and it can be manipulated purely by participating in the search in a conscious and intentional manner, thus greatly increasing information flow and search efficiency. This can be done legally, safely, covertly, a switch analogue to Blues' employment of the dial. There's at least an argument that past a certain point it should be done. We are not at that point yet, but we probably moved significantly closer last night.
If not being ruled by people who hate you is a priority, it's probably better to destroy the throne and the crown and the fields, the bridge, the mill, than to allow the other side uncontested control of them. Blues did not actually get more reasonable or moderate last night, just more powerful. Or maybe I'm wrong, and they've learned their lessons, and we're in for an era of moderate, sensible centrism, lol, lmao.
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