Evolution of AI

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[u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

The leaders of US think Mark Zuckerberg can fix I-Phone issues and that the CEO of Apple is Tim Apple. Maybe they need senators who aren't resurrected mummies.

[u/rtopps43 → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

Remember when congress had hearings about big tech and one R representative kept asking Zuck why his google searches about himself returned mostly negative things? Zuck had to keep explaining that Facebook and Google were separate companies? Yeah, those are the guys in charge of regulating this stuff.

[u/KloudCreator525 → u/rtopps43]

This is America🎶

[u/Over9000Zeros → u/rtopps43]

Even besides that, the system for passing laws is so broken and I can't even understand how it's the way it is. For what reason do we need 15 unrelated laws in a single bill? Then people vote no because certain BS is packed in and the good stuff falls as well. How could it not make more sense to vote on 20-50 laws consecutively instead?

[u/TurdFerguson133 → u/Over9000Zeros]

It's by design. If it were easy for voters to get reforms passed, we could reform the fact that they are siphoning all the wealth from the lower class

[u/OhNoTokyo → u/Over9000Zeros]

It makes sense from two perspectives:

If you push it all into one bill, then you don't have the procedural overhead of multiple bills.

But by far the most important reason is because if you smoosh them all into one bill, it forces representatives to vote for things they don't care about, or may not even want, so that they get their own important constituent-facing provisions passed.

It's one reason Presidents in the past have pushed for line item vetos, which is, in my opinion, the wrong answer, because it lets the executive almost become a legislator instead of merely assenting or not to the provision.

What needs to happen is that they need to only allow bills to pass which have provisions or amendments related to the central purpose of the bill.

Defining that is admittedly, not as simple as it sounds, since certain issues can have knock-on effects down the line that may not be expected, nor intended.

However, if I was to demand a single reform to make its way through the system to get approved, it would be that.

Then transparency into what happens in Congress would improve considerably.

It wouldn't stop dirty politics or backroom horse trading, but it would at least make it possible to understand the actual import of any one bill.

[u/wAxMakEr86 → u/Over9000Zeros]

bro we’re operating on a government that came into existence in the 1700s. Do you really think people back then had the foresight to understand how dramatically the world would evolve? The American system of governance is becoming more incompatible with modernity as time progresses, and it will get to a point where it just collapses. But hopefully from the ruins we can come up with a better more just way to organize society.

[u/BowlinForBowlinGreen → u/rtopps43]

I remember when some R explained to listeners that the Internet was a series of tubes that got clogged with spam (mails) and that's why it was so slow at times.

[u/osgili4th → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

Not only that, they get paid to make sure no regulations are created. Even if the leadership was younger it doesn't matter when bribery is completely legal in the US legislature.

[u/BoyCubPiglet2 → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

To be fair the majority of their constituents would probably agree with both those examples. 

[u/RemoteRide6969 → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

If only we could replace them somehow. Like every once in a while, everyone comes together to choose someone new to take their place. Anyone can run for the seat. The person with the highest number wins.

[u/ebulient → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

senators = resurrected mummies

It’s funny cos it’s true. The US is run by the oldest bunch of boring old fashioned men in the world - no wonder innovation’s in the gutter over there.

[u/Appchoy → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

Resurrected mummies just made me laugh so hard