techblueberry
5 hours ago
I’m always skeptical when I see an emotion attributed to an entire political party or ‘CEOs’ (“panic”)
BuT they pushed the AI will destroy all jobs and possibly kill us all so hard -
I can’t imagine they wanted an outcome where they were incredibly politically toxic, but it’s like jumping off a cliff and being surprised when you start to fall?
They spent years acting in a way that 1000% predicted this outcome. In my wildest dreams I couldn’t have imagined this turning out well.
It also feels like this ship has sailed. What are they going to do, get the Rock and Taylor Swift shilling for datacenters?
And I don’t think Dario “the only solution is to cure cancer” Amodei is helping matters.
I know this is antithetical to everything Silicon Valley believes, but I think we as humans have forgotten how to dream small.
bediger4000
29 minutes ago
You've got to admit that the 2026 Republican party has a more top down command structure than any US party in living memory. If Trump makes a policy, or says something, that's the policy, that's the party line that virtually 100% of elected Republicans espouse, and a large percentage of Republican voters believe. There's none of the variation that Democrats display, there's no Republican AOC/Sanders, no Republican Fetterman, or Manchin or Sinema. There's not even a Bob Dole or John McCain who occasionally votes across the aisle.