mahiwaga

I'm not really all that mysterious

Unfavorability Ratings and Mob Rule

It does seem like one of the major reason why people don’t like Clinton is simply because of the media perception of her character and personality and hardly anything to do at all with policy. Hopefully Trump will remain far more despised than Clinton until November. Democracy and mob rule FTW!

It seems like, looking back at history, Clinton has the same problem that dogged Nixon. He just seemed totally shady and utterly untrustworthy, and this was magnified by the media, and it cost him the election against JFK. Of course, it didn’t stop him from eventually getting elected and re-elected and then committing crimes against the republic which he was never prosecuted for, but what are the odds it could happen again?

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Everything You Do to Stop Skynet from Happening Makes Skynet Inevitable

Hmm. What semicompetent AI isn’t going to figure out how to disable the off switch first?

AFAICR, the threat of being shut off was the proximal cause for HAL going all homicidal and throwing people out of airlocks.

Google Doesn’t Want to Accidentally Make Skynet, So It’s Creating an AI Off Switch • 2016 Jun 3 • Darren Orf • Gizmodo

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