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Dead.
Hands.
The only way things will evolve is towards maximizing AI generated code and minimizing human involvement because that is the most efficient mode for getting product to market. Any trend to the contrary is temporary. We'll just have to hope things don't break too much and when they do, we'll just have to accept it because no human will be capable of (or allowed to) fix it.
But for everything else - anything with the stink of "empathy" on it - every penny has to be justified. We cut USAID and destroyed a useful source of soft power and intelligence and killed hundreds of thousands of people because the program helped gay and transgender people in some way. We cut funding to HHS, welfare, science, education, infrastructure and the environment. And then we approved the biggest military budget in history. Netanyahu makes a phone call and we burn $3 billion dollars a month on a war with Iran without a second thought or an end in sight.
So I respectfully disagree. Under a fair and impartial system you would be correct, but American politics is neither. Every program isn't on the table. Every attempt to balance the books is nakedly partisan and punitive.
The right has seen Democrats (and "leftists" in general) as communists and degenerates for nearly a century. Literally nothing about Trump or Trumpism is new, it just wasn't normalized. There was a consensus reality around politics and culture that had to be maintained which no longer does.
Someone's getting a lump of coal from the Basilisk this year...
No they don't, they vote for someone to open up the mines again and keep the immigrants out.
What everyone knows is that American gun owners voted in the system that's eating them alive and that they don't care as long as that system doesn't touch their guns.
So they can just keep shooting watermelons in their backyards and being keyboard warriors on the internet, for as much as their "leverage" matters.
In practice every time someone goes to Washington to "clean house" the first things to get gutted are welfare and funding for science and research, because unfortunately a lot of Americans consider all of that to be waste. Never the military, never the police, never the pork.
I believe that governments have an obligation to their citizens beyond simply taxation and violence, and that the social contract goes both ways. I understand that I'm in the minority of Americans in this belief.
Democrats aren't choosing not to take sides, they're choosing to take the anti-trans side because they feel (likely correctly) that it holds more political currency in the current right-wing authoritarian climate.
>That doesn't mean someone should be against making trans a protected class for employment, et cetera purposes.
But that's just the thing - they will turn against that for the same reason, naked political opportunism. Republicans seem to actually care about principles, odious as those principles sometimes are, whereas the Democrats are constantly trying to curry favor with centrists and conservatives because they're afraid to be labelled "leftist."
The narrative exists to justify deskilling and replacing human expertise with LLMs on the premise that LLMs are at worse human equivalent and at best human superior but the hyperbole employed to make the false equivalence sometimes borders on the absurd and occult.
>It wouldn't surprise me if a systematic approach to solve these problems with LLMs could be applied to human/hybrid teams.
What you're describing aren't "problems" that need to be "solved" in human beings. They are problems when they persist in software, but we already had software that didn't have these problems.
This is a state of being that we chose because we decided profit superseded all other concerns.
You aren't talking about compromise on fiscal policy, you're talking about compromise on basic human rights and decency. Accepting transphobia from the Democratic party just means the transphobes get everything they want.
Because at least a downvote is silent. Without a downvote that energy just bleeds into more argumentative and off-topic discussion.
The problem is people complaining about downvotes. People need to just accept them as the cost of doing business here and move on. Complaining is only going to get you downvoted more.