Those are very small bodies though, so the law of large numbers doesn’t come into play that much. What’s proposed here (disclaimer, didn’t read the article, but been a proponent of sortition for a long time) is to compose democratic bodies like congress, parliament, senate, etc. by sortition, where the large number of members should remove some of that randomness. Also, could it get much more random than some of the lunatics currently in congress?

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It’s still not profitable to refine oil in those refineries at the current oil price.

I see, I guess it makes sense for the primaries. Thanks!

Is it required to register as a voter for a party? Why would anyone do that? Aren’t the elections supposed to be anonymous?

Great summary, shame most people are so easily convinced by the billionaire class that taxing them would somehow affect themselves, that it’s all the immigrants’ fault, or that all the rich people would move away and then who’s going to create all those jobs?

And that’s how they normalise their privacy invading practices…

There are several countries that basically did this and no, the stats don’t change. In fact, de-criminalizing those drugs has lead to a decrease in usage and associated deaths in all cases I’m aware of.

Amazing, this capitalism thing :)

First, the US gives billions to Israel in aid, then they spend it on US military equipment. Why not just buy the jets directly and hand them over?

The electoral system we currently have is not democratic. Sortition/aleatoric is the only real form of democracy.

JS and Python code is equally garbage.

I’ve been saying since a long time, the only way a social network makes sense is if it’s public. It’s a public forum, just like the central square in a city, it makes zero sense giving private companies the kind of power that comes with controlling it.

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What else can they do? I think what’s despicable is that no other dems are backing this. At least all dems should back it, so that it’s 100% visible for everyone who is responsible for children dying from preventable diseases.

Does that seem likely to you? I guess it depends on the outcome of the probes by both congress and senate, but it doesn’t seem likely to me that anything will come out of them. If even it did, he would still have to be found guilty by a military court I think. Unless all the strikes are declared illegal due to the US not being at war in which case it could go to a civil court, as far as I understand. That would mean the administration admits that the whole campaign had no legal ground though, which I don’t see happening. Plus the supreme court seemingly being completely corrupted as well…

Obviously what I wrote above is completely impossible, there’s no way to invade the US. And by free world I certainly don’t mean Russia or China either, so no chance. This can only be resolved from within the US. I hope it will, but at the moment it looks grim.

I agree with you, though proponents will tell you that’s by design. Supposedly, it’s like with high-level languages. You don’t need to know the actual instructions in assembly anymore to write a program with them. I think the difference is that high-level language instructions are still (mostly) deterministic, while an LLM prompt certaily isn’t.

It’s still useful to have an actual “study” (I’d rather call it a POC) with hard data you can point to, rather than just “trust me bro”.

Well, then you shouldn’t…

Foreigners? What a dumb response. We defend it against foreign influence, that includes corporations and governments.