Recent commencement speakers including Google's Eric Schmidt have been booed for praising AI and encouraging students to use it as they embark on their careers.
You don’t get to convince a bunch of companies to eliminate job paths by getting rid of entry level positions (even before AI), sell the idea that the AI is basically going to make their degrees useless, and then try to sell them on AI after the fact.
Billionaires have bought enough of the media, governmental and legal apparatus that they have repeatedly convinced:
the poor to vote for a billionaire business owner who came from wealth
religiously fervent to vote for an atheist who regulaly, publicly and aggressively breaks any religious canon
“law and order” voters to support him as a convicted felon
women to vote for a rapist, misogynist
those who want to “protect the children” that his long and personal friendship and association with an aggressive child sex trafficker was benign
descendents of slaves to vote for a candidate whose leading campaign contributor is an apartheid supporting white supremacy
those with tenuous legal status or those related to those with tenuous legal status to support a platform bent on demonizing immigrants, legal or non, in a country built by immigrants, while his own wife is an immigrant
veterans to vote for a candidate who said those who serve for their county are foolish
veterans who may have actually fought in WWII to vote for a guy advocating appeasement against a dictator who militarily invaded and is currently occupying Europe
rabid Mccarthyists to vote for a candidate who has ongoing ties, financial transactions, security concerns with the Russian dictator
corporations who say their most important lobbying need, every single year forever in any industry is “certainty” to give generously to a candidate and administration that has never had a plan for economy other than their own grift, and has unilaterally destroyed their international trade markets, supply chains, competitive edge and the value of their currency
…there is so much more. That’s just off the top of my head list of getting people to vote against their interests and passions. Getting indebted, youth who you have aggressively cut back government funding for education on to swallow a turd of disempowerment and fascism isn’t even difficult compared to some of the above.
All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can’t maintain a quality of life at all. I’m not saying they aren’t susceptible to propaganda. I’m saying that propaganda often falls apart when you have to worry about where your next meal is coming from.
Young people are using AI because they want the shortcuts to the goal society said they need to achieve.
Pretty much all of the stuff you talk about is stuff a smaller subset of the population fall for. You went through and described a bunch of MAGA voting as if the vast majority of higher education graduates fall into this category.
In point of fact it’s been proven repeatedly that more often than not the reason Conservatives have been trying desperately to fight against higher education and education in general is because they get pushback from educated people more often, even after feeding them a steady diet of religion, conservative propaganda, and racism.
This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point.
It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There’s more too it than “we convince them to vote against their own best interest”.
All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can’t maintain a quality of life at all.
Nailed it.
You can’t gaslight people when they can’t put food on the table. The people who get elected this November in the US will largely argue against data centers and for affordability. (Though I’m skeptical that any of them, save Graham Platner, would actually vote for any meaningful change.)
All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can’t maintain a quality of life at all.
Agree with you on this, itsomg been a question of "how bad does it have to get before people stop swallowing bullshit. We still aren’t there yet, so it hasn’t fallen apart.
This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point. It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There’s more too it than “we convince them to vote against their own best interest”.
The majority of people, voters anyway, have supported the bullshit and lies which is exactly how we got here.
The majority of voters don’t like the current regime and are fighting it in through the avenues they are aware of.
But here’s the main problem.
The propaganda isn’t how we got here. The fact is, the conservative party in this country has been desperately chipping away at public power for decades. They enacted policy and legislation over a period of years (over 100 years if we’re gonna be honest about this), in order to defang the public. The main problem with that is that propaganda only works when you can control the discourse and that’s the reason the big push is happening now. This is their last ditch attempt to get things they want done and cash out. They do not plan to be here for the aftermath.
The average MAGA voter is indoctrinated with the propaganda but that’s not really why Trump won. He made promises that appealed to their basest/hateful natures and those are the majority of the promises he kept. He won because of complacency on the part of people who opposed him (including voters and voter eligible people who opposed him), and the hatred of the people who supported him. Some of that hatred comes from the propaganda. But some of it just comes from the fact that the problem is a systemic part of our country as an institution and that’s the major thing you leave out. Along with the complacency and the hatred, he also won because desperate people trying to cash in and cash out backed him. There’s a greed component you also left out.
The crazy thing is that greed component also exists in the voters.
Pretending that it’s simply a matter of using propaganda to get people to vote against their own self interest is only part of the picture.
They were voting for things they view as part of their self interest.
You don’t get to convince a bunch of companies to eliminate job paths by getting rid of entry level positions (even before AI), sell the idea that the AI is basically going to make their degrees useless, and then try to sell them on AI after the fact.
Billionaires have bought enough of the media, governmental and legal apparatus that they have repeatedly convinced:
…there is so much more. That’s just off the top of my head list of getting people to vote against their interests and passions. Getting indebted, youth who you have aggressively cut back government funding for education on to swallow a turd of disempowerment and fascism isn’t even difficult compared to some of the above.
All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can’t maintain a quality of life at all. I’m not saying they aren’t susceptible to propaganda. I’m saying that propaganda often falls apart when you have to worry about where your next meal is coming from.
Young people are using AI because they want the shortcuts to the goal society said they need to achieve.
Pretty much all of the stuff you talk about is stuff a smaller subset of the population fall for. You went through and described a bunch of MAGA voting as if the vast majority of higher education graduates fall into this category.
In point of fact it’s been proven repeatedly that more often than not the reason Conservatives have been trying desperately to fight against higher education and education in general is because they get pushback from educated people more often, even after feeding them a steady diet of religion, conservative propaganda, and racism.
This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point.
It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There’s more too it than “we convince them to vote against their own best interest”.
Nailed it.
You can’t gaslight people when they can’t put food on the table. The people who get elected this November in the US will largely argue against data centers and for affordability. (Though I’m skeptical that any of them, save Graham Platner, would actually vote for any meaningful change.)
Agree with you on this, itsomg been a question of "how bad does it have to get before people stop swallowing bullshit. We still aren’t there yet, so it hasn’t fallen apart.
The majority of people, voters anyway, have supported the bullshit and lies which is exactly how we got here.
This is an oversimplified version of events.
The majority of voters don’t like the current regime and are fighting it in through the avenues they are aware of.
But here’s the main problem.
The propaganda isn’t how we got here. The fact is, the conservative party in this country has been desperately chipping away at public power for decades. They enacted policy and legislation over a period of years (over 100 years if we’re gonna be honest about this), in order to defang the public. The main problem with that is that propaganda only works when you can control the discourse and that’s the reason the big push is happening now. This is their last ditch attempt to get things they want done and cash out. They do not plan to be here for the aftermath.
The average MAGA voter is indoctrinated with the propaganda but that’s not really why Trump won. He made promises that appealed to their basest/hateful natures and those are the majority of the promises he kept. He won because of complacency on the part of people who opposed him (including voters and voter eligible people who opposed him), and the hatred of the people who supported him. Some of that hatred comes from the propaganda. But some of it just comes from the fact that the problem is a systemic part of our country as an institution and that’s the major thing you leave out. Along with the complacency and the hatred, he also won because desperate people trying to cash in and cash out backed him. There’s a greed component you also left out.
The crazy thing is that greed component also exists in the voters.
Pretending that it’s simply a matter of using propaganda to get people to vote against their own self interest is only part of the picture.
They were voting for things they view as part of their self interest.