Wouldn't it also suggest that, even without a fascist US government, assigning moral urgency to "the US beating China in AI" is more incoherent nonsense?

Robin, my sense is that you're being coy about the specifics of ethicswishing in tech, given the grand promises being made about AI and an entire field of 'alignment' researchers treating safety as a technical problem, not a political one. Can you be more explicit? Is 'alignment' discourse nonsense?

Epilogue: this same smart-aleck later died of a mysterious lung disease, so maybe the joke was on them.

A very clever but sometimes tactless relation of mine infamously once asked friends, who were grieving the loss of their dog to lung cancer, if the dog smoked. They were not amused.

As a White straight male, I was deeply, deeply affected by the killing as something that could happen to me, those I love, and anyone else with the courage to stand up to ICE.

Agreed! But there's an important strategic question of whether it is better to emphasize Good's gender and sexuality or as an everyperson.

@titonka.bsky.social is a case in point: for their gender-obsessed hammer everything is proudly declared to be a nail, and they pay no social consequences for piling on to the already unbearable burden of mutual contempt.

Whiteness, maleness, cisnormality, ableness, etc. are all allegedly built on domination, and hence demand open-ended self-abasement and reparations from those without much left to give but their own self-respect. It's like we're living through the consequences of an ideological Treaty of Versailles.

It's long been acknowledged that elites insulate themselves or benefit from lower class Whites being stripped of whatever privilege their whiteness confers. But I don't think there is sufficient acknowledgement of how greedy, expansionist, and zero-sum this trend has become.

Social media has done the opposite: the abundance it provides is in cheap, limitless contempt, and Bluesky is hardly immune, with plenty of air cover provided by today's norms of 'polite' academic-left discourse.

white males that are the problem). I don't find it threatening, just intellectually vapid. Queue the "just kill yourself" and "please don't ever have children" flaming.

the words 'stifle innovation.' My bet is that it will fit nearly every time.

cause. Be aware you're meeting your audience's emotional need (mine, too), not just providing fact-based analysis. Your often sneering tone plays to that need, and the accusation of you being substance-free may be picking up on that vibe.

I was probably wrong about you making a capabilities misprediction. Let me take another stab at it:
Big Tech is generating a lot of fear, anxiety, and resentment, such that even the thought of the AI bubble bursting is comforting, despite the mayhem it would

the bubble, but without acknowledging that AI is more capable than you predicted it would be. The humility gap makes the bubble work less credible, which is a shame. Maybe that's what the "substance-free" dig was getting at?