We always focus on AGI, which is a cool idea that may or may not be possible. What gets lost is that we are likely to see systems capable of massive economic transformation well before an official AGI comes online. We may actually already have some version of that, in fact.

Personally, I'm lucky that I'm not going to lose my job for vocally opposing the Trump admin. I could probably get arrested for protesting and some at work would celebrate it. That isn't a privilege everyone has in this moment and those of us who have it need to acknowledge that.

It makes sense for individuals to consider where they personally need to be on the "compliance to attempt self-preservation/live normally spectrum.

Private retribution makes the risk landscape uneven depending on how open (for example) your employer is to take such things seriously.

"The ground rapidly approached her"

That's exactly the part we always miss. Republicans get really good at talking about voters top concerns right before the election because they invented that issue over the last 2-4 years.

I did some research last year on this. Business leaders were likely very cynical about whether democracy was necessary for success. They already considered politics a business risk so the leap to accepting Trump-y authoritarianism (rightly or wrongly) simply wasn't that far of a leap for them.

He pardoned 1500 domestic terrorists on Day 1. It isn't like the administration has ever been shy about what is allowed by who here.

I'm baffled that political professionals who have traded in attention since long before social media (and sometimes the Internet itself) don't/can't/refuse to get this.

Very fundamentally, how has anyone ever gotten anyone else to vote for them? Attention. Expand from there.

That's not a trivial accomplishment though. I don't buy the "new species" nonsense but we don't need to hit that high of a bar to have built something remarkable with widespread utility.

Super boring here, but a SUMIFS script that I need to run on every row of 100,000+ row sheets. It takes Excel forever; Python with pandas takes a literal second.