It'd be hilarious if it was a fiction, some bitter comedic cautionary satire

Personally I don't think the ELIZA effect is the interesting part of this. For me it's how the incentives set this dynamic up right from the start, and how quickly they've been taken to the extreme.

I've been appreciating Legal Eagle and Democracy Docket, hopefully they'll do a segment on this.

If you haven't already, look what Pete Hegseth (whose mother disowned him) had to say to the top US commanders about sparking armageddon. This is ultimate bullshit. Cosplaying assholes with captain hook style hangups.

Let's not forget that the string pullers are also unhinged

Truly exciting

Polymarket heads think they're so smart as they simultaneously reveal a total lack of awareness about feedback loops.

Even when there's a polymarket bet on their heads?

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If specifications become IP? Reboot the pirate parties. Authoritarianism is what it is. The exploitation isn't coming from the tools, it's coming from the economic structures and forces of exploitation being brought to their natural limits. We should learn from the luddites, the actual luddites. They weren't anti-technology, they were against the insane consolidation of power. This proposal might seem radical but all it would really do is reify intellectual property at exactly the wrong moment, a game over moment. Feed local LLMs. Feed peoples' movements around these technologies, so that people bring agency into how we use the tech, so that we don't get dominated by the laws that form around it.