In practice, I’ve heard of companies using AI to “replace” large groups of people, then higher back a few of them with expanded responsibilities and worse pay.

So, they are using it to replace workers, just not in the neat sci-fi sense.

Meanwhile, you get lucky if your representative’s staffers read the bills before a vote.

It shouldn’t.

Perhaps. But that’s not the world we live in. Demanding an electorate to suddenly change in a way it never has and start behaving like Homo economicus is only going to lead to further loses.

slow to improve is still an infinity larger improvement than… nearly every other party official, really

Ok, but you see how massively demoralizing this conversation is, right?

Making logical points weighing up two distinct yet similar stances on genocide is only going to suppress voter turnout.

How many people pay for porn though?

The outliers, the people making sure your local furry artist can afford a wacom tablet, they’re not gonna drop that money on any old ramshod image thrown together out of statically likely pixels. Who’s gonna pay for all the server time needed to generate the lowest quality of the lowest common denominator smut?

The logistics of the Holocaust was enabled by IBM tabulation machines; this comparison isn’t that much of a stretch.

the other day I heard someone make the point that Amazon is just a more successful Palinteer