Ya, honestly it is getting scarier than I thought it would. I disliked him from the outset, but figured "after his term we'll at least return to normalcy and fix things". Now I'm much less confident, but desperately hope it goes back to normal after the next election. Maybe we can use this experience to strengthen the institutions that crumbled under the pressure.

This is why I am wondering why so many here do not fight in their own area of expertise against the establishment of new feudal AI overlords. It would be so easy.

If everyone lets these structures develop and does nothing, things will get worse. Wait how the suppression will be if Musk, Thiel, Altman and Amodei are your feudal lords that control your job.

(If you say you cannot do anything because your manager orders you to, watch Yes Minister and learn how it is done. In software all you need to say is that you are trying, but you constantly have to revert bugs introduced by the clankers, which is true anyway. Yes, and you need to do it in a team.)