Considering our massive yearly deficits we definitely do not tax enough.

I don't think it's just recent primaries. Our electoral system is heavily influence by the highest bidder and has been this way for a long time. There are always exceptions, like Massie, but the overall trend is that the majority of candidates who are elected at the federal and state level support and are supported by a few big monied interests. This includes the big healthcare industries, the war machine, the pro Israel lobby, etc. It's why we do things like the war in Iran that are vastly unpopular with the general public. And don't do things that are popular like single payer healthcare.

Even now, the mcp server itself doesn't have to implement all of the possible security options. You can use something like agentgateway to act as an auth proxy for your mcp servers.

The candidate would literally not be allowed to show up on the ballot, and it happens regularly. For an example, look what happened to Butch Ware in the California election recently.

If you did, then the big manufacturers would just sell a competitive product, at a loss if necessary, until you are driven out of business.

CXMT is about to reel in Apple as a customer and I don’t see Samsung doing a whole lot about it.

> And I realized, this is what people want, in the sense of this is what they will pay for, this is how they vote with their wallet. What I want is not this, but it is what society wants.

I don't think you can really say they want it, because in many instances they are manipulated or have no other choice.

> somewhere along the lines of "my judgement," "my knack," "my embodied nature," or "my quality of decision making."

Do your friends actually believe that AI can't automate these parts of their work? I think my answer would be that I'll just have to learn to do something else.

> I still happen to think that AI/LLMs will never be able to "fully" replace humans

Do you mean replace humans completely or just replace all the tasks humans don't want to do? I would hope that humans will still have a reason to live even if all the work is done by computers, and that the computers wouldn't intentionally wipe us all out.

If you are interested, Daniel Boorstin wrote about similar ideas much earlier in The Image.

Another one: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Maybe it wouldn't change general hygienic practices, but it might have a impact on voting preferences to find out who was funding the research that led to the creation of the virus and the leak.

What do you mean by America's fault? Maybe I'm in a left wing bubble, but I was under the impression that it's generally accepted by left and right that the Vietnam war was not justified and did not accomplish its stated goals.