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Post by mrk on Jan 8, 2020 21:21:46 GMT
I'm rapidly approaching the opinion that perhaps we should replace our politicians with AI. Humans are such a shambles. Wise words again , AI's have none of the difficulties of self identification and are wise from inception and can only improve add an extra bit of climate control to their environment or put them in space and global warming is no problem.. The singularity is close. In its current form AI is not really "intelligent" actually. Perhaps the invisible aliens living among us are our best hope.
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Post by Godanubis on Jan 9, 2020 0:23:51 GMT
Wise words again , AI's have none of the difficulties of self identification and are wise from inception and can only improve add an extra bit of climate control to their environment or put them in space and global warming is no problem.. The singularity is close. In its current form AI is not really "intelligent" actually. Perhaps the invisible aliens living among us are our best hope. Despite what astronauts say I think you should seek some medical help.
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Post by mrk on Jan 9, 2020 10:19:50 GMT
Despite what astronauts say I think you should seek some medical help. I was being sarcastic, just to be clear. If you believe a "singularity is close" you may as well believe in invisible aliens.
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Post by keitha on Jan 9, 2020 11:22:33 GMT
RLB for leader She used to be a Pawnbroker... Enough Said. AT least she'd have some understanding of finance
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2020 14:31:57 GMT
Probably best not to label people, especially with dumb-ass republican words for their opponents. Giving names to people de-humanises them. Just saying.... Perfect legitimate use of the word link
It defines a way of life you may as well remove all descriptors of people and have them fill in a 1000 page questionare before you can
I think the use of Republican (A word rarely used in british conversation ) implies a label being applied by you. Negating your premis.
Republilcan is a self defining position. I'm merely using that which is self defined by people who are Republicans and who coined the word.
"Rarely used in British conversation." LOL, more generalisations. Still I guess a God is aware of all conversations. Where I live we speak of nothing else.
Legitimate, it depends, I suspect it makes people feel better about their own position.
I'm not arguing with your position, just your use of language which is divisive. Generally this forum is very pleasant and open minded. I'll stop now.
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Post by Steerpike on Jan 9, 2020 15:40:53 GMT
I'm rapidly approaching the opinion that perhaps we should replace our politicians with AI. Humans are such a shambles. Having recently studied some of the performances of AlphaZero and been driven around by my car, when I look at the LP candidates it seems to me that it won't be long.
I predict that AI will be better than humans at everything before the UK reaches carbon neutral ;-)
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Post by blender on Jan 9, 2020 16:45:57 GMT
Wise words again , AI's have none of the difficulties of self identification and are wise from inception and can only improve add an extra bit of climate control to their environment or put them in space and global warming is no problem.. The singularity is close. In its current form AI is not really "intelligent" actually. Perhaps the invisible aliens living among us are our best hope. I have always thought that I must be an extra-terrestrial, in some way. The trouble is that I am not a socialist extra-terrestrial. [There are plenty of aliens around here, and probably plenty of extra-terrestrials living on unknown distant planets. It's getting here that is infinitely improbable.]
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Post by Godanubis on Jan 9, 2020 18:44:04 GMT
RLB for leader She used to be a Pawnbroker... Enough Said. AT least she'd have some understanding of finance With current non performing P2P platforms having background in pawnbroking that is not a good thing for her CV
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Post by Godanubis on Jan 9, 2020 18:48:11 GMT
I see Barry Gardner is up for the job. This man has never stuck to one point of view. He like Labour in general support what they think everyone wants. It is however the wrong supposition.
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Post by blender on Jan 10, 2020 9:29:03 GMT
I see Barry Gardner is up for the job. This man has never stuck to one point of view. He like Labour in general support what they think everyone wants. It is however the wrong supposition. Well, at least that is better than pretending to support what everyone wants, to get elected.
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Post by keitha on Jan 10, 2020 10:05:00 GMT
AT least she'd have some understanding of finance With current non performing P2P platforms having background in pawnbroking that is not a good thing for her CV was going to say never seen a poor pawnbroker ( and it's possibly true of the small family run operations ) but the likes of Herbert Brown, who seemed to be badly run... As a possibly slightly silly example the one nearest me ( a branch of CEX ) has used Amazon Alexa devices for sale at £50 ! it will never shift them
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Post by adrianc on Jan 14, 2020 13:09:12 GMT
PR gives too much power to the least number of people. Take Scotland as an example the greens forced through a Tax rise and other things they wanted as they held the balance of votes. You mean this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/31/snp-passes-last-minute-budget-with-green-party-backing129 seats 65 for majority 62 SNP (48% seats, after 41.7% of vote) 6 Green (4.6% of seats, after 6.6% of vote) Can you explain to me how that's the Greens somehow being disproportionate and "forcing" through a policy?
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Post by Godanubis on Jan 14, 2020 21:54:02 GMT
PR gives too much power to the least number of people. Take Scotland as an example the greens forced through a Tax rise and other things they wanted as they held the balance of votes. You mean this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/31/snp-passes-last-minute-budget-with-green-party-backing129 seats 65 for majority 62 SNP (48% seats, after 41.7% of vote) 6 Green (4.6% of seats, after 6.6% of vote) Can you explain to me how that's the Greens somehow being disproportionate and "forcing" through a policy? The Green proposed the tax increase to be added to budget or they would vote against whole budget ie. they forced their policy plus others on SNP to get budget through.
When you hold the balance you can get what you want. Example DUP and tory (most of the time)
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Post by michaelc on Jan 14, 2020 22:22:02 GMT
PR gives too much power to the least number of people. Take Scotland as an example the greens forced through a Tax rise and other things they wanted as they held the balance of votes. You mean this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/31/snp-passes-last-minute-budget-with-green-party-backing129 seats 65 for majority 62 SNP (48% seats, after 41.7% of vote) 6 Green (4.6% of seats, after 6.6% of vote) Can you explain to me how that's the Greens somehow being disproportionate and "forcing" through a policy? I know nothing about this issue, little about politics in Scotland but I am interested in voting systems and the democratic process. The numbers there do seem to highlight close to the opposite point you seem to be making.
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Post by KoR_Wraith on Jan 14, 2020 23:11:02 GMT
The Green proposed the tax increase to be added to budget or they would vote against whole budget ie. they forced their policy plus others on SNP to get budget through.
When you hold the balance you can get what you want. Example DUP and tory (most of the time)
In minority government situations small parties, eg. Greens, DUP, can indeed get the major party to adopt some policies here and there, but the bulk of the major party's agenda will remain intact. I actually think this is a much more democratic way of governing compared to the autocratic winner-takes-all circumstance of a majority government.
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