Hmm, reading through this post, I feel like I'm looking at two major tragedies happening in contemporary America right now, and honestly, it’s really hard to watch.
First, this painful question of political extremism. Left-wing versus right-wing—which one actually leaves the worse mess behind? When the boat is rocking this violently back and forth between two crazy extremes, you have to ask: have all the normal, rational people in the middle just been thrown overboard at this point?
Second, watching America turn its back on clean energy and roll back progress at such a critical moment in history. Who could have ever guessed that a single person could make such a massive mistake, driving the whole country backward like this? I guess history will have to answer this painful question down the road.
I think you miss the fundamental problem of Left antisemitism. You state, de facto, that all Jews need to do is give up Zionism - a fairly important part of most Jewish teachings, at least in its basic form claiming Israel as the Jewish homeland - and Leftists would have no problem with Jews. You are essentially saying that 20% of Jews are 'good;' but the rest deserve the hate being visited upon them.
At least the Right is honest; they hate Jews just for being Jews.
The Left, at present, is more dangerous for Jews than the Right, simply because its justification for Jew hatred is more sophisticated and thus more likely to be accepted by elites.
Honest only means that they announce their intentions. The Left disguises them. I despise to the core of my being both of them, but at this moment in time I am more scared of the Left because of their greater lnfluence among the people of my intellectual world.
b. The Right is on a Long March of 60 years to eradicate all Left people and policies
c. The Right is committed to NOT co-exist with the Left, people and policies.
d. The Right has a 60 year sustained philosophy of actions based on a simple Trinity. By which all Policies, Senators, Justices and Judges must be subservient to:
God
Guns
Glory (war).
What is the cohesive, Clear and Simlle and coherent foundation of our Democrats/Liberals/Progressive?
The Cs. Chaos. Confusion. inCoherence.
I'm Left. My team utterly failed to develop leadership and a bench.
Noah, I think your too-rosy memory of historical fact is obscuring reality. The late-90s featured only the second impeachment trial of an American president after years of work by a GOP movement that was abetted by a divisive new entry in the media landscape: a TV network devoted to presenting news with a partisan slant. This was followed in short order by a presidential election so close that it's widely regarded as having been decided by the Supreme Court. That despite the economy being in such great shape the US was running a budget surplus.
My perspective, having had to listen to my parents pretend that the country was falling apart because the president diddled an intern (behavior they apparently now sanction, given they've supported the current president since his first election), is that the divisions we have today are certainly worse than then, but they fall along basically the same fault lines, and while social media has helped sharpen the lines, it didn't create them, and we've collectively done precious little to reach across those divides and patch them up.
Oh about AI critics and decelerationists, I have to say they are filled with noble humanistic concern right? I get it; but also it feels like they rarely offer a clear answer to one simple question: if we slow down, then what? What actionable steps can actually compensate for the economic and societal losses during that transition? I'd love to see a practical, realistic solution, but so far, I haven't seen a technically feasible idea that really solves this.
And the point about Obedience vs. Benevolence is great! As a developer I see AI code generation works great now, but code review has become a real bottleneck. Human review can't keep up, yet handing it over to AI agents creates non-convergence issues because AI can't make smart trade-offs between speed and risk at critical moments. Just like Noah pointed out, this fundamental gap between human oversight and AI behavior is why software deployment won't go fully autonomous anytime soon. The technology keeps moving fast, but until we find better answers or AI solves this alignment dilemma, humans are stuck keeping AIs on task.
Hmm, reading through this post, I feel like I'm looking at two major tragedies happening in contemporary America right now, and honestly, it’s really hard to watch.
First, this painful question of political extremism. Left-wing versus right-wing—which one actually leaves the worse mess behind? When the boat is rocking this violently back and forth between two crazy extremes, you have to ask: have all the normal, rational people in the middle just been thrown overboard at this point?
Second, watching America turn its back on clean energy and roll back progress at such a critical moment in history. Who could have ever guessed that a single person could make such a massive mistake, driving the whole country backward like this? I guess history will have to answer this painful question down the road.
More thought should be paid to how the internet has trended towards functioning as a hive mind more and more.
I think you miss the fundamental problem of Left antisemitism. You state, de facto, that all Jews need to do is give up Zionism - a fairly important part of most Jewish teachings, at least in its basic form claiming Israel as the Jewish homeland - and Leftists would have no problem with Jews. You are essentially saying that 20% of Jews are 'good;' but the rest deserve the hate being visited upon them.
At least the Right is honest; they hate Jews just for being Jews.
The Left, at present, is more dangerous for Jews than the Right, simply because its justification for Jew hatred is more sophisticated and thus more likely to be accepted by elites.
The Right is "honest" is laughable.
The Left antisemitism is not, absolutely not, as dangerous as the Right.
Honest only means that they announce their intentions. The Left disguises them. I despise to the core of my being both of them, but at this moment in time I am more scared of the Left because of their greater lnfluence among the people of my intellectual world.
The simple truths are as follows:
a. The Right desires to eviscerate the Left.
b. The Right is on a Long March of 60 years to eradicate all Left people and policies
c. The Right is committed to NOT co-exist with the Left, people and policies.
d. The Right has a 60 year sustained philosophy of actions based on a simple Trinity. By which all Policies, Senators, Justices and Judges must be subservient to:
God
Guns
Glory (war).
What is the cohesive, Clear and Simlle and coherent foundation of our Democrats/Liberals/Progressive?
The Cs. Chaos. Confusion. inCoherence.
I'm Left. My team utterly failed to develop leadership and a bench.
Fails by Clintons immensely. And Obama et al
Noah, I think your too-rosy memory of historical fact is obscuring reality. The late-90s featured only the second impeachment trial of an American president after years of work by a GOP movement that was abetted by a divisive new entry in the media landscape: a TV network devoted to presenting news with a partisan slant. This was followed in short order by a presidential election so close that it's widely regarded as having been decided by the Supreme Court. That despite the economy being in such great shape the US was running a budget surplus.
My perspective, having had to listen to my parents pretend that the country was falling apart because the president diddled an intern (behavior they apparently now sanction, given they've supported the current president since his first election), is that the divisions we have today are certainly worse than then, but they fall along basically the same fault lines, and while social media has helped sharpen the lines, it didn't create them, and we've collectively done precious little to reach across those divides and patch them up.
Oh about AI critics and decelerationists, I have to say they are filled with noble humanistic concern right? I get it; but also it feels like they rarely offer a clear answer to one simple question: if we slow down, then what? What actionable steps can actually compensate for the economic and societal losses during that transition? I'd love to see a practical, realistic solution, but so far, I haven't seen a technically feasible idea that really solves this.
And the point about Obedience vs. Benevolence is great! As a developer I see AI code generation works great now, but code review has become a real bottleneck. Human review can't keep up, yet handing it over to AI agents creates non-convergence issues because AI can't make smart trade-offs between speed and risk at critical moments. Just like Noah pointed out, this fundamental gap between human oversight and AI behavior is why software deployment won't go fully autonomous anytime soon. The technology keeps moving fast, but until we find better answers or AI solves this alignment dilemma, humans are stuck keeping AIs on task.
Really wonder why the US is falling behind in its share of BEV sales.
Much of the gap in sales share started before, but continued after the Inflation Reduction Act was passed.