And that’s how you get two Trump administrations 🙄

At least we finally got the world to all agree on something.

I’m not looking forward to a National Guard / ICE street fight but it seems more possible by the day

This is also a problem in the field of intelligence. Big pushes to use it to (somehow, magically) get a better understanding of threats and risks without gaining the fundamental knowledge and ability to communicate.

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5) instead of asking “should we integrate LLMs into our workflows?” And “What are the benefits and costs?” Teams mostly jump into “HOW do we integrate?”

Skipping the most important step.

This is going to hit people coming into the field particularly hard.

4) research over the past 18 months raises some big red flags about frequent LLM use on cognitive ability, information retention & understanding, and (most concerning) *desire* to engage in critical thinking.

All essential elements of the intelligence profession.

2) analysts are left to figure out how to use it on their own…lots of potential for misuse and incentives to just copy/paste results

3) few teams have done any sort of risk assessments. Given the past 20 years, is it a safe bet to assume Zuckerberg, Musk, et. al. Won’t misuse data or skew results?

That means a mix of compromise and education that will likely take a few years and meanwhile voting/supporting the most progressive candidates likely to win in races, even if they aren’t very progressive.

I suspect the ads were following public sentiment rather than creating it. Dems tried a pro-immigrant approach in 2016 and 2020 and it didn’t gain much traction.

We need to stop thinking a better ad or a lefty Joe Rogan will solve our problems. Voters have heard our positions and don’t like them.

I wonder what these folks said about Jan 6 or 9/11…

I think it’s possible but they’d definitely need some latitude…I’m just not sure there’s much of an incentive structure for the online crowd to give anyone that.

Is there really an option for a (commercially viable) podcast like that that doesn’t get pilloried if they ask a dumb question or make an off colored joke?

Full disclosure: not a listener of any part of the bro pipeline (unless The Daily or Pod Save America guys count)

I suspect there’s no way it’d survive the social media purity tests…as many have said before, these outlets mostly started as not overtly political and explored a wide range of views (in my generation it was Howard Stern) either for humor, curiosity, whatever.

Of equal interest (to me) are the folks who were so quick to lionize the shooter - no stated ideology or goal…just for killing someone.

If the end of that road doesn’t chill people 🤷‍♂️