The fact that Democrats 'caved' after such an encouragement and threat signaled by the electorate not even a week suggest, electoral threats did not play here.

A primary electoral wipeout in '26 will not be enough, there are still too many Democratic Senators who are willing to waltz with Trump...

AI is High Experience, High Agency (AI is friend) - This is where the hype wants people to go. Hype maker wants people to trust AI - does the hype maker actually belongs in this category? 🤷‍♂️

I think most people here are deluded investors, who are desperately trying to rationalize irrational markets.

AI is High Experience, Low Agency (AI is puppy) - Studies are this category where people gain the most empathy.

I think most uneducated Pro-AI fall in this category. Their showing of affection varies, but ultimately they feel as though they have some personal connection to AI.

AI is Low Experience, High Agency (AI is demon) - There are two subcategories, I think. There are dismissive people who still get sway with the hype and therefore freak out about AI taking over or whatever.

Then there are science people who cautiously wants to warn people but doesn't know how to...

AI is Low Experience, Low Agency (AI is trash) - These are your typical dismissive people who believe when the bubble pops, the tech would go right along with them.

They emphasize on the 'difference' between humans and AI and boldly state current limitation as an ultimatum.

Is/Ought Gap is simply an instance of dynamical independence

The cinch is that these concept that define hierarchy can answers question stated in the finite space, which cannot be solved in that finite space - like the Hydra problem.

This result pushes us to believe that the idea of hierarchies is somewhat natural - and liberalism is best we can do.

And if you don't like the idea of hierarchy, you won't like the idea of infinity and the reverse as well.

This is why early mathematicians studying transfinite numbers related these concept with God, and why degrowth people rail against 'infinite growth' and so on...

It's as if you are not in the queue in the first place, because you will never accomplish the task you set when you entered the queue.

What infinity does here is to define the idea of hierarchy - there are haves and have nots.

The common objection is that you cannot reach the end of the queue that is infinitely long, but let's be mathematicians and assume that you can.

Now you are in a queue that has infinite number of people in front. How long does it take for you to reach the front of the queue?

You don't.

1 - Yes, many workers would be jobless. That's why a union is necessary, here union is a lifeboat to help smooth the transition rather than simply protection.

2 - Regulation should shift focus to markets, like Steam and Epic Store, instead of big publishers. Good that markets are easier to regulate

The only way Video Games can hold on is through FOMO / Network Effect / Brand Value (which are the foundation of games as service), at which point you are heading to a thermostatic reaction. The ship has sunk, the water just haven't entered the ship yet.

Obviously, I'm simplifying but look at gaming in 2025.

Two of the biggest games this year (Silksong and Clare Obscur) were made by 50 or so people, and therefore priced at a lower cost. The quality and fandom match those of big studios - the advantage of AAA is gone.

One of the under-discussed market cycle is the regular trade of power from Capital to Markets and back.

New tech arrives - first players become monopolies. Tech becomes cheaper - player advantage disappears, industry collapses. Lots of small players means markets becomes the primary discern.

But the problem is that it's practically impossible to write the Modern Bible. This corundum is the subject of many languid philosophers from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Camus...

And part of modern maturity is basically making peace with the above statement.

As a reply pointed out, it's not particularly hard to write an overview of some niche topic and publish it as a book!

But Sapiens is trying to do more than that! They are trying to inspire, trying to present a moral backbone to prop yourself in.

It's a problem in all media now - the ahistorical nature in which the fandom arises. Taste aren't led by institutions but whims of influencers which has no interest in protecting and preserving the medium.

We threw the baby with the bathwater - instead of reform, we have instead annihilated.

There are oodles of anime video essayists, many which have been working for over a decade, and some of which are popular, like on those on Trash Taste.

But the essayists are rarely going to be the leader of defining trends and tastes in the fandom.

That's the major gripe.

Really, like, the fault is not with The Anime Men. The channel are not designed to make insightful videos, and making insightful video shouldn't be a must on the internet.

The problem is with the audience who experience the media in purely commercial and facile way.