So if you’re an AI guy who is miffed that we loathe your product, sorry, not our problem. As the meme goes, that’s not how any of this works. Go raise another 900 trillion in funding, make everyone else love and want and PAY for you (you know you have to do this eventually!) and leave us out of it.

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

Yeah, I feel like a "one cool trick" to determine if an internet leftist is someone I should treat seriously or not is whether their primary political commentary is whining about liberals instead of the fascists tearing down the government. Works every time, without fail.

A lot of the people in question never seemed to express any kind of passionate opposition to him in the first place. Their primary grievance is with liberals.

Maybe also those who are looking to pre-emptively excuse themselves for not voting in 2028.

Assuming the worse is inevitable so they don't have to try for better.

Legends

A lot of leftists ironically have something in common with Ayn Rand: They think the whole system is depended on a few super-rich ubermensches. They only differ on whether they think the system is good or bad.

And they ignore how ordinary humans contribute to propping it up.