A more apt example would be a scientist based the universe constant size on the color of their cat’s fur.

Social studies are whack.

Ooh, I have a study performed on 13 WEIRD (a real thing, google it) young adults in nowhere, Ohio, that means everyone is like that, and we should base anything on those findings.

Total garbage really.

Are you of Chinese Han descent?

No? Then you will never get the citizenship. China gave fewer citizenships total than Poland does every year.

Thats from a different revolution (June 1832) and Bastille was not stormed then :)

Companies are using AI in automations now and it’s working so well that they’re willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars a month (on tokens) just on that one automation

it’s working so well

Citation needed. I work in a midsized IT corpo, I don’t see it working that well? Sure, some shit is shipped faster, some is shipped slower, customers churn is 2x higher than “planned” and prod bugs have doubled.

(And we do all the fancy shit, looping, custom harnesses, orchestrations, handovers, savepoints, post delivery pipelines, autoremediation, blablabla, context, graphs blabla)

Didn’t Anthropic calculate it based on the best day and multiplying by 365?

The author could totally rehash the ancient Athenian arguments, as their flavour of democracy was Sortition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition . They (e.g. Aristotle, Plato) argued against elections - because rich and wealthy would capture them and take over the government, perverting it to further enrich themselves. The only way to have a democratic body was to select Senate (slight simplification, read the wiki for details) at random from all adult citizens.

This has been known to humanity for over 2500 years.

This concludes my democracy talk.