If elections are the beating heart of democracy, political parties are something like the liver. Absolutely vital, & readily sickened.
The US has GOP-induced cirrhosis
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This is A+ trolling
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“...We argue that the existing paradigm of democracy driving scholarship about its relationship to AI highlights the wrong questions. [We describe] why it is insufficient for understanding or acting in a healthy democracy." buff.ly/NgIEQzX @knightcolumbia.org @himself.bsky.social @hahrie.bsky.social
AI and Democratic Publics
Bringing politics back into debates about AI and democracy
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This is an extraordinary provocation for anyone tempted to replace coalition politics with preference agregation.
That is: AI-enabled democracy is probably not going to be democracy.
“...We argue that the existing paradigm of democracy driving scholarship about its relationship to AI highlights the wrong questions. [We describe] why it is insufficient for understanding or acting in a healthy democracy." buff.ly/NgIEQzX @knightcolumbia.org @himself.bsky.social @hahrie.bsky.social
AI and Democratic Publics
Bringing politics back into debates about AI and democracy
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But if he lived in PA, I could see him replacing Fetterman.
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That's on the nose. He could change, but it would be surprising.
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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Yeah, they are all about regulatory reform and not at all about the distribution of power or assets or income, which just utterly dessicates their analysis. Basically Niskanwn center centrism. I mean, they’re not wrong. They’re just myopic and woefully incomplete
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I don’t think the Ezra Klein version has anything to do with me, but the whole point is that people don’t just want to know how Dems get them out of poverty; they want to know how Dems make them prosperous
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That’s not what I said.
There’s a major three lane artery 3 blocks from my home. The speed limit dropped from 35 to 25. There are never unaccompanied children crossing it; it’s rare for anyone to cross it. If the change saves lives/injuries, great. Otherwise, the cost/benefit ratio is off.
