Rhaedas

You don't have to be intelligent to ruin things. Look at Trump.

At least a thinking machine would have a reason for doing what it might do, instead of bumbling along and overshooting any safeguards left. Which given Musk's attitude, Grok would be the first and last safeguard for everything. So yeah, this is worse than Terminator.

I've seen this movie.

"The only way to keep things from crashing is to plug ~~Skynet~~ Grok in."

I don't even disagree with your points on where the party was or is, or how left Obama really is/was, but the neutering of the ACA to what we got wasn't Obama's fault. It barely got through even as a Republican-based idea, and from then for two terms on any other efforts were subjected to "just vote no" mentality.

A public option would have done more.

Yes, it would have. Damn it, Obama, why did you vote against...oh wait.

It doesn't have a basement?

Given that "interesting" is how the Chinese curse goes, we're in interesting rimes now. So more of the same as far as how humans behave. Climate far worse because again, we aren't going to change. More dystopian, corporate rule (the cyberpunk novels had that spot on), AI better/worse depending on your perspective (more advanced, used everywhere). Internet far different than it has been, with familiar niches holding out here and there. Possibly recovering from some major disaster, maybe large scale even.

It's safer to expect pessimistic results and be surprised. I don't doubt there will be some good things to happen too, great advancements and maybe even big societal changes that help people. They're harder to predict though.

"Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future."

A good lesson is to look back on predictions made for the future 50 or 100 years ago. Often times the technology is the guessed the closest right, but how it is used, and how it affects the social structure of society is totally wrong.

How many nukes going off does it take to ruin everyone's day? One. Modern rationalization is "maybe if we make it small enough", no, it's still one. Not only because it's an environmental disaster even if small, but it crosses a line and once crossed, lines move around a lot. The last thing needed is a nuclear detonation and the world's countries analyze it and determine, "well, it was terrible, but not THAT terrible. Maybe two is the limit."

What do you call someone who sits at the table with a fascist? Even if they verbally disagree with them.

It's so out of character. If only we had decades of history to judge how a person is.

As a conversational AI, I found this rather funny.

Wow, I've been busy with a lot of stuff. That I haven't done. The glory of VPN (that doesn't keep logs) is you're behind the noise of anyone else. Sometimes it's better to not be hidden, but be in the crowded plain sight.

The best thing to pipe into an observation lounge is the tower/ground frequencies. Watching planes doesn't have to be a Disney experience with a soundtrack.