fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1237248126550933504?s=20

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1237248126550933504?s=20

Bulgakov posted:

i still think of the pics of them loving with that shave brush or w/e

Origami Dali posted:

tacodaemon posted:

oh his defense lawyer said that? well maybe he shouldn't have put himself in that position

UFOTacoMan posted:

I still think about how harvy einstein would cum in potted plants near by and always wondered if some plant care taker worker had a big revelation about what that was in those plants after the story came out

fits my needs posted:

Nonsense posted:

that was Louis CK not Weinstein

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1237248126550933504?s=20

UFOTacoMan posted:

I still think about how harvy einstein would cum in potted plants near by and always wondered if some plant care taker worker had a big revelation about what that was in those plants after the story came out

DryGoods posted:

Tainen posted:

I feel like bernies heart just wasn’t in it this go around

the popes toes posted:

tacodaemon posted:

oh his defense lawyer said that? well maybe he shouldn't have put himself in that position

Tainen posted:

I feel like bernies heart just wasn’t in it this go around

ex post facho posted:

aoc 2024

Quotey posted:

ex post facho posted:

our electorate is loving stupid as gently caress

the popes toes posted:

If Warren thought they were rude to her then....

ex post facho posted:

our electorate is loving stupid as gently caress

Quotey posted:

Filthy Hans posted:

there's voting against your own interests, and then there's knowing what your best interests are and voting against them anyway

slopJoe 2020330 posted:

i assume everybody's busy running around like a chicken with its dick cut off rn so i'm gonna break off some thoughts in here

i've heard it said before (and i agree to some extent) that artificial intelligence already exists, but it's not computers. it's corporations. after all, they sort of have a will of their own, don't they? primarily that "will" is just greed, with everything else existing in support of that greed. the employees are dumb tools that the larger entity, the corporation, uses to further its goals.

having a drive as simple and discrete as greed is actually what makes the whole thing work. the machine knows what it wants. it wants money. it wants number go up.without that, the machine would have no way to measure its progress ("fitness" in AI terms). it would act and grow randomly, or refuse to act at all.

go ahead and agree with all that, because that's not the real post. my friend, that's just the appetizer.

i think that concept - an organization itself being an autonomous intelligence - also applies to political parties. or at least to our two american political parties.

the goal would obviously be power instead of money. not quite as easy to quantify (how many senators is a president worth? or a supreme court justice?) but still roughly measurable by seats of power (mostly elected). if you can assign relative values to all those seats, you can build an AI capable of making decisions to further its fitness.

obviously trading seats for other seats isn't really how political parties compete - they compete for votes. so how do you win votes? well, if you feed this machine lots and LOTS of data about public opinion... it can tell you how to win votes. because it can tell you what people want to hear. and what people do NOT want to hear. it can find the wedge issues you should introduce. it can find the most advantageous anwers to your opponents' attacks, that actually pivot the issue toward your strength or your enemy's weakness.

of course, any machine would also need to know how to protect itself. it needs a survival instinct. it needs to be able to recognize potential threats - and act to get ahead of them before they grow into a real problem. mostly, it would handle this the way it does everything else - exploiting public opinion, introducing wedges, dividing up and swallowing its enemies' support.

if i were the robo-democratic-party-machine, i would have run elizabeth warren's campaign exactly the way it went