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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Welp, so much for yesterday's stock market rally. The Nasdaq is off 4.5% today. Looks like it briefly hit 5.4% down. Officially in correction territory now, down more than 10% off the peak, and only up 6% YTD.
NVDA down 8%. Micron down 13%.
The steep dropoff means its likely a fund or two just got blown up. I guess people are digesting the data center votes.
Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and other states going blue can't help either. Where is stuff going to get built now? Not to mention that taxes are going to go up a lot in 2029, if not earlier.
I've made fun of gold bugs in the past, but I think they might have a point.
GPUs will not replace us!
One thing I'm very much looking forward to is all the anti immigration types who don't want migrants taking their jobs getting tufted out by GPUs instead, either directly or because the GPUs took over smart people jobs and now those smart people are beating the aforementioned types at their own vocation.
I mean doesn't this vindicate the anti-immigration types when it's kind of nonsensical to bring in bulk amounts of new people who are going to be difficult to employ in the current years and therefore add additional pressure to whatever welfare-adjacent system comes up. I know if somebody was to try and immigrate to Pakistan that you'd want them as an indentured servant at best, so clearly your views are purely self-serving.
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