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Even a hypothetically true artificial general intelligence would still not be a moral agent

That’s a deep rabbit hole that can’t be stated as a known fact. It’s absolutely true right now with LLMs, but at some point the line could be crossed. If and when, how, and by what definition has been a long debate nowhere near resolved.

It’s highly possible that AGI/ASI could come about and be both super intelligent and self conscious and still have no sense of morality. But how can we at human levels even comprehend what’s possible? There’s the real danger, we have no idea what we could be heading towards.

That was the next layer, but they can’t get to that point if the voting isn’t close. I don’t disagree that elections is one of the many reasons why the court got stacked, but way before the SC there WILL be corruption attempts at the voting level. See Steve Bannon’s commentary on how they’ve put people in place in voting areas and have formulated a plan to question voter authenticity. They know they can’t win with a fair election, so they’re finding more and more ways to subtly cheat. Or maybe not even subtle now, since they keep saying everything out loud.

And the best way to counter this is drown the attempt in voter numbers, so that even if ballots are questioned or tossed or people turned away, the number still are high.

Looking that way. Vote anyway. Let’s see if we can break a record of voter turnout and margin of difference. No more of this stupid late night “still 50%/50% results, too close to call” because everyone thought it was a done deal and they didn’t need to show up. Amazing how when everyone thinks that, there aren’t enough votes…

Reminder of why the winner of the 2000 election didn’t become President () When you have both an electoral college and first past the post voting system, close races get ugly and questionable. If a higher percentage of people would vote, we wouldn’t see such a close race.

I don’t think that’s the problem. Here’s an example of the distribution of voting, and it’s sort of what you’d expect from the stereotype. Note that Gen-X is close to 50%, a bit more to the right. What affects things more (and mentioned in the article) is actual voting, or rather the lack of voting from the apathetic or oppressed or mislead. If more younger voters don’t vote, the results skew to the right.

Add to that how different the commitment to party is between left and right. Left has lots of differing opinions and the infighting between Democrat and farther left 3rd party voters often result in either spoiler or no votes at all (which is why ranked voting would be a huge change). Right on the other hand, we’ve all heard the line about party first, no matter what. Liars, rapists, felons, still voting for the candidate because that’s what a Republican does.

I don’t know if the latter can be easily fixed outside of better education both in voting information and in general. The right really aren’t in favor of any of that though, that would hurt their numbers. Trump even said it out loud, they love the poorly educated.

The first part though is powerful. I’ve heard it said to young crowds many times that if more of them show up they can hugely affect the results.

I’m not denying my generation (Gen-X, and why I felt I needed to reply) has its share of MAGAs. Long ago when I first joined Facebook and started adding friends I found from high school I thought it would be cool to reconnect. It was disappointing how quickly I found so many of them were not the same left-leaning radical free thinking people I thought I knew back then. But MAGA mania isn’t solely in one generation, it’s a problem shared that will stay around if we don’t change some things.

Vote anyway. Be part of a sweep.

McCrory would know about doing and saying things that later come back to bite them.

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Issues don’t get fixed after election because voters go in thinking it’s a four year duty, not a continuous one. The uninformed voter name applies both during election time and between. Vote for the one that has the most potential to change (which means getting more progressive reps in Congress too) and then ride their ass their whole term if they aren’t making a difference you like, or if they do what you expect from them let them know they’re doing well. They are representatives by title, but they can’t represent who they don’t hear from.

So by many factors the above eliminates voting for Trump. This is a no-brainer vote, but the public has to put in some effort after they get people in office too. A big part of this problem is representation number in Congress, we ought to have a smaller rep/population ration than we do. But the other is a public that forgets to pay attention until it becomes a media headline.

At least one brand now has a newer design that rotates the microwaves themselves to better distribute the energy. It’s a bit pricier than the standard models.

If a stat is X per 100,000 citizens for 20 years ago and then X per 100,000 last year, last year would be greater overall if the population grew. Comparing two recent numbers the error becomes less important, I’m more talking about the headline looking back.

Both sides? Wait, that’s a third side. So we’ve gone polyhedral?

Shouldn’t population statistics like this have an adjustment for population growth, like inflation for economic figures? Still a decline. Also would mean that the non-violent numbers like theft have grown even more.

Not quite a Karl Rove reaction, but similar. “These numbers can’t be right, it’s not the numbers we paid to get.”

Or convince Harris voters that it’s a done deal. It’s not done until all the votes are in. No matter what polls say.

Everybody knew this was a stupid rumor and had already been debunked. Which is what got Harris’ reaction when he brought it up. They don’t have anything of substance to run on, so they have to go with created stories, and then double down even when those stories are shown to be false. It’s all they have.

This isn’t really all that new, it’s just that the Trump and Vance team are so bad they don’t know when to move on to something else. Past Republicans who used similar tactics are laughing at them, they’re so bad.

I wanted to jump into using Peertube, but unfortunately Youtube grew enormous because it was the only thing at the time. Pulling people from it to other platforms with less viewers and usually no compensation is tough. (although YT compensation as of late is a joke as well)

The trick is that if he loses, he won’t admit that he lost, so therefore his promise doesn’t count. Not that any of them do.

If the tax percentage was included in the itemized price wouldn’t there be likely an over or undercharge in some cases where there was rounding at each listed total? It’s just pennies for most transactions, but that adds up.

Thorium was being tested for viability alongside uranium, and got scrapped not because it wasn’t a feasible design, but because it couldn’t produce weapon grade material as a byproduct. Some countries are finally exploring thorium again, hopefully with some success.