I'm fucking sick of it and I don't want to hear any more bullshit. Boosters _know for a fact_ people are not double-checking LLM output, they _know for a fact_ it is often incorrect, and it's ridiculous because again, the _only_ way to avoid this problem defeats the purpose of using LLMs at all

Yeah, I figured the audience is probably limited. It just reminds me of when Ron DeSantis' overly online nazis sunk his campaign

I think you're absolutely right but when I think about who's seeing it, it's mostly Nazis. Unless the Instagram and Facebook algos are serving this up to normal people from the DHS account (and I suspect they're not) most people have no idea they're doing this. It's not covered on network news, etc

I have a feeling this overly online nazi shit doesn't resonate with most people

6. That election had a robust debate over the gulf war and criticism of the size of the 2008 bailout. Romney was framed as an out of touch plutocrat. To the extent energy came up it was the criticism of the Dems for Waxman Markey cap & trade in 2009, not "thank you for drilling".

4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.

3. Leadership is about doing what is necessary, not just what is popular. Read literally anything our founders wrote about virtue, and the inherent risks to a society based on democratic processes to sustain the rule of law to the extent that unvirtuous people gain power.

2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?

1. First, let's talk about the elephant in the room that he doesn't mention explicitly but haunts the whole piece: climate change is real, we've overshot the goal and the only way to turn the corner is to leave fossil fuel in the ground. To ignore that is to talk about rocketry and ignore gravity.

I wrote about the ballroom a bit in my newsletter this week: