Not widely accepted by scientists or the public. And rather quickly debunked.

Playing a social and economic experiment with our society is precisely what the AI hypemen demand of us right now. And any questioning is met with accusations of anti technology leanings to ludditism.

So no, your arguments are not very compelling because the very first premise is sorely misrepresented.

Perhaps the Roman Pontiff was not targeting you as his audience?

Don't confuse the Broken window fallacy with avoiding a world wide consolidation of wealth as millions of people are effectively removed from access to any part of the economy.
Replacing weavers with better technology is different from having neither workers or consumers, and in a vast array of industries. The scale matters

Teraform the Gobi desert, then work out way up to the harder stuff like living on Mars for a year.

I can write a TSR for it in about an hour.

Newsome doesn't care all that much. Because he can't run a third term for governor. And the kind of political friends that lead to power in California are subtly different from the kind that are necessary to win in a Presidential primary. He is playing a very different game, and frankly does not need to make nice with tech industry to do it. Those buffoons will donate to both parties anyways.

Number of laws are similar between Red and Blue states. Don't buy into propaganda designed to force you to pick a team instead of thinking (and voting) for yourself.

The Democratic machine in California is corrupt and lives off big donor money from major industry. Similar story for the GOP in the states where they hold a significant majority.

Because solving housing, water, land use, power, and jobs are problems beyond what most of the scum in Sacremento can solve. So they find all these little pet projects because they have a lot of free time on their hands. A true Idiocracy, being ruled by the most incompetent.

Most, but not all, kids of the current generation are neither knowledgeable in computers or interested in learning. People just want to connect with friends on their phone and play games.

One can always use AI to write the prompts...

I sure wish we had funded civics classes in public schools. Then I wouldn't have to explain that a governor is the executive of their respective state. And the pattern repeats for mayor in many (but not all) cities.

Yes, because fuck one person, one vote. The decisions in this country belong to the ones who own it, not the ones that live there.

When there is a rolling black out, does that now mean our economy comes to a grinding halt?

Ride in comfort in your own private island oasis. Just like Epstein's

An otherwise very technical friend called me recently to tell me someone was using my name in emails sent to him. I explained that I'm on a list, that we're ALL on a list. And someone is possibly phishing him directly.