>Yes, all of which might in principle be used to support similarly strong hopes, but there’s little energy for that.
The ongoing trillion+ dollar race is entirely premised on such hopes, it would seem to me. Even though, like you say, fears require just one thing to plausibly go wrong, they look to be thoroughly crowded out by hopes so far.
I'd say that there's a narrow optimistic circle of AI labs and investors in them, which isn't short on hopeful words, and the huge rest of the society where nihilistic pessimism of various sorts pervades. I mean, you seem plenty pessimistic yourself about the direction of the western civilization.
Rod, once again your TDS is showing. You take Talarico's attacks charging Paxton with corruption at face value. However, there has never been a conviction, and according to Paxton, the charges were political. In the matter of the military, Sec. Hegseth has set out to reduce the number of flag officers. For comparison, at the height of WWII, per Grok there was about 1 flag officer per 6,000 troops; today it is about 1 per 1,500. So one can expect a lot of complaints attacking Hegseth and Trump. It looks like you place credulity in them because you like any kind of negative item regarding the President. He is not without his flaws, but your one-sided approach is tiresome. Why don't you see whether you can't sum up the positive efforts he has made? Conservative sources have made extensive lists of these, many of which you likely agree with. Mark Thiessen, Rod Martin, and Speaker Mike Johnson are among those who have listed achievements. Of course, people will differ on how they value these, but this approach might help you get out of your rut.
>Yes, all of which might in principle be used to support similarly strong hopes, but there’s little energy for that.
The ongoing trillion+ dollar race is entirely premised on such hopes, it would seem to me. Even though, like you say, fears require just one thing to plausibly go wrong, they look to be thoroughly crowded out by hopes so far.
Yes, investment reveals hopes, but not so much words.
I'd say that there's a narrow optimistic circle of AI labs and investors in them, which isn't short on hopeful words, and the huge rest of the society where nihilistic pessimism of various sorts pervades. I mean, you seem plenty pessimistic yourself about the direction of the western civilization.
Rod, once again your TDS is showing. You take Talarico's attacks charging Paxton with corruption at face value. However, there has never been a conviction, and according to Paxton, the charges were political. In the matter of the military, Sec. Hegseth has set out to reduce the number of flag officers. For comparison, at the height of WWII, per Grok there was about 1 flag officer per 6,000 troops; today it is about 1 per 1,500. So one can expect a lot of complaints attacking Hegseth and Trump. It looks like you place credulity in them because you like any kind of negative item regarding the President. He is not without his flaws, but your one-sided approach is tiresome. Why don't you see whether you can't sum up the positive efforts he has made? Conservative sources have made extensive lists of these, many of which you likely agree with. Mark Thiessen, Rod Martin, and Speaker Mike Johnson are among those who have listed achievements. Of course, people will differ on how they value these, but this approach might help you get out of your rut.