AI Hits Politics

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Can't wait to see what Trumpovetsky conjures up for the POTUS election.

Nothing said in an election in the FSoA has been believable for decades.  Now it will be believably unbelievable.  Or unbelievably believable.  Or unbelievably unbelievable.  Propaganda on steroids.  Elections simply a contest between which side has more powerful software tools and computing power available for production of mind twisting images and video.  Truth broken down into tiny bits and reassembled to make new truth.  The Big Lie gone Infinitely Large.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/world/americas/argentina-election-ai-milei-massa.html

Is Argentina the First A.I. Election?

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[K-Dog]

Elections simply a contest between which side has more powerful software tools and computing power available for production of mind twisting images and video.  Truth broken down into tiny bits and reassembled to make new truth.  The Big Lie gone Infinitely Large.

That is the way things are NOW!  You are not telling us how A.I. will make things different.

We are living in an age where 'smart' people think that Klaus Schwab and his merry band of banksters is going to create a hellhole where everyone has shit, but we all like it.  Or something like that.

America, the paradise where rents are affordable and a person can live a responsible life in which by simply putting a bit away each month, one can expect to finance their retirement.  No problemo in this land of opportunity.  ALL THIS WILL BE DESTROYED!  Our land of equity and opportunity WILL BE GONE.

The conservative Joe Six Packs of America fear that Americas fine land of affordable health care and free and reasonably priced education will blow away in future transexual winds of confusion.  THE HORROR.

So bend over and kiss your asses goodbye.  For A.I. is about to destroy the world.

Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, "our city." I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes.

It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.

First communication became digitized and free to everyone. Then, when clean energy became free, things started to move quickly. Transportation dropped dramatically in price. It made no sense for us to own cars anymore, because we could call a driverless vehicle or a flying car for longer journeys within minutes. We started transporting ourselves in a much more organized and coordinated way when public transport became easier, quicker and more convenient than the car. Now I can hardly believe that we accepted congestion and traffic jams, not to mention the air pollution from combustion engines. What were we thinking?

Sometimes I use my bike when I go to see some of my friends. I enjoy the exercise and the ride. It kind of gets the soul to come along on the journey. Funny how some things seem never seem to lose their excitement: walking, biking, cooking, drawing and growing plants. It makes perfect sense and reminds us of how our culture emerged out of a close relationship with nature.

In our city we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.

Once in a while, I will choose to cook for myself. It is easy – the necessary kitchen equipment is delivered at my door within minutes. Since transport became free, we stopped having all those things stuffed into our home. Why keep a pasta-maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards? We can just order them when we need them.

This also made the breakthrough of the circular economy easier. When products are turned into services, no one has an interest in things with a short life span. Everything is designed for durability, repairability and recyclability. The materials are flowing more quickly in our economy and can be transformed to new products pretty easily. Environmental problems seem far away, since we only use clean energy and clean production methods. The air is clean, the water is clean and nobody would dare to touch the protected areas of nature because they constitute such value to our well-being. In the cities we have plenty of green space and plants and trees all over. I still do not understand why in the past we filled all free spots in the city with concrete.

Shopping? I can't really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.

When AI and robots took over so much of our work, we suddenly had time to eat well, sleep well and spend time with other people. The concept of rush hour makes no sense anymore, since the work that we do can be done at any time. I don't really know if I would call it work anymore. It is more like thinking-time, creation-time and development-time.

For a while, everything was turned into entertainment and people did not want to bother themselves with difficult issues. It was only at the last minute that we found out how to use all these new technologies for better purposes than just killing time.

My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.

Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.

All in all, it is a good life. Much better than the path we were on, where it became so clear that we could not continue with the same model of growth. We had all these terrible things happening: lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment. We lost way too many people before we realized that we could do things differently.

by Ida Auken, a Young Global Leader and Member of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization of the World Economic Forum; MP and former Minister of Environment of Denmark.

For a while, everything was turned into entertainment and people did not want to bother themselves with difficult issues. It was only at the last minute that we found out how to use all these new technologies for better purposes than just killing time.

Personally I find it disgusting that someone born in a country that was occupied by NAZIs in her grandparents generation could be so fucking clueless.

She might as well have said we will all consume hundreds of gallons of corn syrup a year and all stay skinny.  The owners of 'services' will always think things are fair.  Humans are myopic.  to see what is fair requires an objectivity that is rare.

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Who does the dishes in her shared kitchen?  Who cleans the toilets after the Keggers Club had a bizness meeting in her living room while she was at work?

She doesn't own her clothes?  She just walks into the public clothing dispensary, picks out an outfit for the day and leaves her pajamas in the public laundry?  Do they share their panties in this perfect non ownership society?

After reading the first paragraph I figured this had to be a parody.  First off, the timeline is absurd.  This perfect Orwellian 1984 style society is going to be in place by 2030?  Then I realized this writer was serious. Finally I read from K-Dog the girl is a "Young Global Leader".  How young?  If she is older than 10 she is seriously delusional.  What is her background?  I am thinking child of an IT dad and Feminist mom currently a sophomore at the University of Copenhagen.

But NOOOO!  Ida looks like she is pushing 30, but trying to look younger with a tomboy haircut.



You wonder why Scandinavians have such high suicide rates?  Wild disconnect from reality.  The worlds as it really is does not compute.  Disorder must be eliminated.

I have been to Copenhagen.  The light rail and buses are always on time.  To the SECOND.  I was amazed when I first saw the train arrival times listed hh:mm:ss on the station columns, and sure enough, the train pulled into the station and the doors opened up right on the nose.  Danes think the whole world should run like their public transportation system.

The world would be a better place if all the women looked like Danish women though. 

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