Getting rid of a specific holiday is wildly different than getting rid of all holidays. I have it on good authority that you can cook turkey and stuffing on any day you'd like.
However, I'm more confused at your overall point now. If Thanksgiving-gate is such a huge deal, why do you think she will win?
Maybe we should take a step and reset? What precisely are you saying?
I have heard that before, though never seen anything that actually confirms it, but it seems plausible enough. I'm just not sure what it has to do with the topic at hand. Even when America allowed slavery and didn't allow women to vote, it was still not fascist.
I agree that this is a concern, but it's a problem already solved. Do you read every single post on Lemmy? How do you deal with all the garbage, low effort posts?
And while you're focusing on the negative aspects of AI, you might consider the flip side of it. How many good, creative ideas died on the vine because the person who came up with the idea lacked the technical skill to implement it?
I understand that it might not seem this way for those people who attempt to make money on their technical skill, but lowering the bar between idea to implementation is an overall benefit to culture.
People using it to spit out entire projects is terrible though and it's destroying the open source ecosystem by making it difficult to find projects that aren't jank and likely to be immediately abandoned
This is a temporary issue; if a project you are interested in gets abandoned, fork it and maintain it (with AI). The problem is that too many people are rejecting the tool that can mitigate the issue. If history is any indication, this is just growing pains, and won't last long.
But in regards to generating any sort of art media, there is no good output or skilled creators because there's no skill or effort put into it
I really don't mean this to sound harsh, but what you're saying here is gatekeeping and inaccurate.
I can give you an entire movie studio with everything you need to create a movie, including writers, actors, special effects, etc-- leaving only the directing to you, and you can still output garbage. Just having all the tools at your disposal doesn't make something good quality. However, if we put a skilled director in that same exact situation, and the output will be significantly better. AI can handle much of the process, but that doesn't mean there's no skill or effort involved.
Additionally, writing prompts does involve creativity. Coming up with an idea is a creative process. To lean on your metaphor, coming up with an interesting and delicious dish is the creative aspect of the process, not just cooking it.
The solution is to not worry about whether it's AI generated. It's a tool; it can be used well by skilled people to create a good output, and it can be used poorly by unskilled people to create a poor output.
You are talking about a different thing than I am. The American healthcare system is garbage with or without AI, but AI is helping the medical field. Getting a more accurate analysis of an MRI scan is objectively a good thing, for example, even if the healthcare system that performed the scan is garbage.
My examples assume those things, but you're free to switch them around as you like; it doesn't change the underlying principle.
The key element of the spoiler effect is that a majority isn't required. If you have 100 candidates and 100 voters, someone can win with only 2 out of 100 votes.
I am guessing that you very strongly do not want this to be true, but unfortunately that doesn't make it so.
The good news, assuming you're an American, is that the states dictate how voting works. Some states, like Maine, have moved away from plurality voting for some elections. In those states there is no harm in voting third party, as long as your vote finalizes on the major party you most align with. If your state still uses plurality voting, now you know exactly what to push for to get more representative voting in your state.
Do you understand what the spoiler effect is? It's sometimes called "splitting the vote".
It's why having, for example, two left leaning candidates and one right leaning candidate results in a win for the right-leaning candidate. With plurality voting the candidate with the most votes wins, without regard for whether that candidate has majority (more than 50%) of the vote.
Let's imagine that we have a population of 100 people and the demographic breakdown is that 60 of them are left leaning and 40 are right leaning. In a two party vote, the left leaning candidate wins. Now imagine a three party election with a liberal, a progressive, and a conservative. If more than 20 left-leaning people vote for the progressive candidate, the conservative wins. Since the voters know this, they have strong incentives to vote for the left leaning candidate they think is most likely to get the most votes, not the one they most align with.
It is technically possible for everyone on the left to all switch parties at the same time, but realistically impossible, especially considering that many people do prefer liberals over progressives.
The only way we get more than two parties is by abandoning plurality voting, and if you're voting for a third party in a plurality voting system, you're helping the candidate you least align with.
It's pretty normal for an employer to dictate what tools and applications an employee uses. If you prefer gitlab but your employer requires teamcity, you don't really get a say, right?
However, if you think you can meet your deadlines without using a code generating AI tool, then don't use it. Ideally, if they are as useless as you imply, no one will be able to tell whether you're using it. The conflict should only really appear if they do increase productivity, and you refuse to use them, resulting in less productivity than your peers.
The medical field is one of the places where AI has made real, tangible improvements.
I can't vouch for that other person's anecdote, but it seems entirely plausible that an LLM chatbot would be able to better diagnose an issue than a search engine, or even a human doctor, especially if the underlying issue was something like an autoimmune disease, which are notoriously difficult to diagnose.
One of the big flaws in the medical profession (and, really, most professions) is that once you are out of school, nothing forces you to keep learning as the field advances. This potentially, and counterintuitively, results in gaps in knowledge that increase the longer a doctor has been practicing. LLMs, with access to the newer medical information and with the ability to receive and output natural language, do make good tools for diagnosis.
AI, as it turns out, is also way better at analyzing MRI scans and x-rays than humans.
An old-fashioned Google search can point you to more information, if you're curious about how AI has advanced the medical field.
the Democratic Party should focus their energies on changing the rules that force everyone to the left of republicans to be in the same party
I am under the impression that centrist dems push back on progressives because progressives support policy like this. It's kind of like you said "Hey Liberals, if you don't want to be replaced by progressives, just do everything the progressives want to do".
My hope is that we're seeing the left-side equivalent of how the Tea Party shifted the GOP, except it's actually grassroots.
Getting rid of a specific holiday is wildly different than getting rid of all holidays. I have it on good authority that you can cook turkey and stuffing on any day you'd like.
However, I'm more confused at your overall point now. If Thanksgiving-gate is such a huge deal, why do you think she will win?
Maybe we should take a step and reset? What precisely are you saying?