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by rayiner 4mo ago
Why not just have two bodies like every other parliamentary system? Europeans elect an MP and each member state elects a Senator. Then the majority party in the Parliament appoints a Prime Minister, who can appoint a cabinet. Nobody is more
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by rayiner 4mo ago
I tried to explain to my wife (American lawyer) how the EU Commissioners are selected and she told me "I'm not having fun understanding this." I had thought it was just the heads of government from each member state. That wou
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by rayiner 4mo ago
I understand, but my question is directed to the second point. Even assuming people like the EU in principle, it's constitutional structure seems bizarre and in need of major reform, at least from my American viewpoint. But there doesn
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Did it pass because a majority voted for it?
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by rayiner 4mo ago
> Some folks (mostly Americans) tend to think that their laws, their definitions of terms like "democracy", their beliefs, their norms, their culture - are all universal. The American system was mostly cribbed from Europeans to
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by rayiner 4mo ago
You don't have effective representation just because a vote happens somewhere in a causal chain. A body that's appointed by people who are themselves typically indirectly elected is a lot of layers of indirection. For effective re
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by rayiner 4mo ago
> - Once the Commission does that, the proposal goes on second-reading (despite the first-reading having defeated it) and it is established in a very PERVERSE way in EU law that to AVOID passing the proposal in second-reading you need AB
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by rayiner 4mo ago
It’s less democratic, yes.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
That’s a possibility, but not the only one. The two most realistic ones are: we race ahead and maintain our status, or we slow down and open ourselves up to colonization.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
If the purpose is to avoid centralizing power, why can the Commission make regulations that have the force of law without consent from either Parliament or the Council?
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by rayiner 4mo ago
The revised law not passing until it gets a majority would seem more democratic.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Okay, but couldn’t a more transparent and accountable structure have accomplished the same result? Why do you need a system with seven different bodies, more than one of which can make what’s effectively laws? For example, why have an elect
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Wow does it become law if the majority of those present opposed it? The American Congress might be utterly dysfunctional, but we’ve never had a law pass despite the majority of members voting against it. What am I missing?
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by rayiner 4mo ago
The alternative isn’t “everyone dying.” It’s us holding all the cards.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
I’m not an AI skeptic by any means. But I can easily recognize GPT generated output. It’s so formulaic. Of course you’d expect it to be formulaic given what it’s doing under the hood. But it does take the sheen off how impressive the writte
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by rayiner 4mo ago
No, of course not. That would be an insane trust fall. Even relatively small advances in technology give a country world dominating power. Fun fact: India was militarily superior to Britain in the 1600s—a gunpowder empire with a million sol
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Yeah, their tech development in drones is really impressive. An invading army has a way of focusing the mind and bureaucracy.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
I haven’t tried it, didn’t have access at the time.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
> Considering that the largest voter base was "didnt vote" It’s a fallacy to treat “didn’t vote” as “didn’t support the winner.” Non-voters are more pro-Trump than average: https://data.blueroseresearch.org/hubf
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Its only expensive because its been regulated to death. In terms of potential energy output in a given area its tops.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Who is opposing renewable energy? Texas is projected to top California as the state with the largest amount of solar before the end of the Trump administration.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
We should have been building more nuclear. We’re not going to upgrade civilization with windmills and putting on sweaters. Think of how much power we’ll need for millions of robots?
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by rayiner 4mo ago
But they couldn’t read because they were poor immigrants to a country that at the time led the world in literacy. The literacy rate in New England for adult men was 90% in 1776. It’s not a surprise that New England probably remains the best
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by rayiner 4mo ago
More like a dictator versus a Poltiburo. If the “entire population” was voting on the shadow prompts of the other models they would look very different. Considering the recent election results, they would look more like Grok.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
“Science proves there is universal ethics” is a poster child for “people are treating science like a religion.”
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Who cares whether it’s one guy’s opinion or several people’s group think? Everyone is editing the prompts.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
> It's how brazen they are about altering their models to achieve it. We know all the models insert shadow prompts to nudge the answers in preferred political directions. How much more "brazen" can you get than that? Nobod
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by rayiner 4mo ago
xAI has that functionality in the business tier: https://x.ai/grok/business . It's got GPDR, HIPPA, etc. We are playing with Harvey, Legora, and Lucio, which can use various models. Harvey can use Grok: https:&#x2
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by rayiner 4mo ago
It wasn’t “scattered groups.” It was common among the Aztecs, who were the largest population in the new world. It was practiced in Mesopotamia, Iron Age Europe, and other places. That demolishes the idea that there’s a “universal human sen
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Human sacrifice, including child sacrifice, was commonplace around the world. So how much of a common ethical ground can there be?

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