What's your most unpopular opinion?

[Weltall]

That's a juicy one. I don't necessarily disagree. Our border was apparently mostly open a few generations ago: Mexicans would come in, work their jobs, and go home. I assume you mean that territories and different jurisdictions are still okay, sort of like how we can move state-to-state. The only reservation I have is large shipments of drugs or weapons getting through (though I'm pretty ambivalent about the War on Drugs to begin with).

I'm against borders in the same sense I'm against having a lock on my front door, in the sense that, it would be wonderful if there was no practical need for such a thing, but unfortunately, there are times you're really glad you have the security. If, for example, Russia shared a land border with the United States, would we want that open? I certainly would not. I appreciate the sentiment and ideal, but we do neighbor a nation which has serious internal stability problems and cartels are de facto governments within some parts. Addressing the root causes of these problems is necessary to solve the problem, and border security should be done in a humane fashion at all times. But, given the internal instability that Mexico faces as a nation (and kind of always has), having an open border with them would cause a lot of problems at present.

Re: AI art. The idea that a picture or a story is procedurally generated by a machine instantly kills its allure for me. There's no soul behind it, it's just a copy of a copy of a (copy^N). If there isn't a human* artist behind its creation, it inherently becomes meaningless, because it violates the purpose of art, which is human* expression. Dicing up earlier works and making an algorithmic composite of them doesn't count.

*Note that when true AGI takes hold, and machines can in some way simulate emotions, this might be a different story. But LLMs creating stories is some ol' bullshit.

Art means whatever the viewer wants it to mean. If a person sees art generated by AI, and it resonates with them on an emotional or aesthetic level, how much does it really matter if a human made it? People are evolutionarily hardwired to detect patterns and derive meanings from pretty much everything. I disagree with the apparent assertion that art must be sourced from a person to possess subjective meaning.