understanding the left

I don’t know how you can use LLMs without concluding that they’re already a very powerful technology — far more powerful than most experts would have predicted 10 years ago — with the potential to become more powerful in short order. The left may get dealt out of the hand if it doesn’t get better AI critics.

Hipster skepticism won’t help us understand AI’s potential or its risk

Coming from the left, the mood affiliation usually takes the form: “Tech bros think AI is cool, and tech bros are bad — therefore, AI is overhyped.” AI is often compared to crypto, a technology that’s least an order of magnitude less important. And in their hipster-esque dismiss... See more

While Jews are a small population, they are 10% of billionaires, and 25% of democratic party donor capital, so they materially influence leftist institutions.

In Argentina, the left lost its political subject twice. The first time against Peronism and now against libertarianism. The libertarians are the underdogs now.

No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.

At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more