> I view politics as the science of cultivating power, and policy as something measurable and scientifically testable. My use was definitely loose. I agree, w

> I view politics as the science of cultivating power, and policy as something measurable and scientifically testable. My use was definitely loose. I agree, with an additional separation: politics is the science, policy is the reality, and propaganda is a corrupting force, influencing both. I think the science and propaganda are too intertwined to make sense of, leaving the reality as the true signal. I believe that if we were very careful, and removed all data relating to "propaganda" and "political science", while training an AI, and just feed it reality, both the propaganda (the outcome of this policy is "better") and science (this results in this) would be emergent in anything we considered "intelligent". I guess my basic point was that avoiding politics is not possible, because we're living in the result of politics, and an understanding of the abstractions of the world results in politics. It's a strong feedback loop with few degrees of "rational" freedom, causing the emergence. An "intelligence" that could look at policy, and create a scaffolding of understanding for why it was built, wouldn't be "intelligent".