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[–] Areostationary 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

Its energy plan doesn't even mention nuclear.

Into the trash it goes.

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[–] rwbj 1 point 7 points (+8|-1) ago 

Hahaha, I'd vote for it ... seriously. I'd rather have an AI that would base their decisions on what it perceives to be the most favorable outcome without the emotion and corruption of humans. AIs in general seem like they would be ideal in many areas of legal judgement. They can maintain and access effectively infinite disparate judgements, legal esoterica, and precedent with absolutely perfect accuracy and their judgements can be made with 0 bias or prejudice. For that matter we could even setup sites where you could have instant access to the judge to ensure something would be legal to do or ask about the exact steps required to ensure it's legality. For instance, imagine you wanted to setup a shop selling sandwiches on the side of a public street. One can only imagine the gazillion documents and regulations you'd need to follow. It'd be amazing if you could ask an online judge who would instantly provide you all the answers with perfect and legally binding detail. If a cop comes by, you have your legally binding document and so long as you can prove you've followed every specific step - you're 100% legal. Or we could stop having so many stupid laws, but I digress.

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[–] BottomLine 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I digress

No, why, they're all valid points.

The only problem is that the thing is programmed by people of course, so we cannot know for sure if it'll be 100% free of prejudice or dirty tricks, but we can at least demand opensourcing the code and making it's log public. There will always remain plenty of possibilities to fuck with it by those who manage it, but it's already one major improvement over what we have now.

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[–] jxfaith 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The only problem is that the thing is programmed by people of course, so we cannot know for sure if it'll be 100% free of prejudice or dirty tricks

That depends on the techniques employed in creating the AI. If it's a neural network, it's incredibly unlikely that a human can even understand, let alone directly alter its programming.

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[–] umilmi81 ago 

An economy managed by an AI still wouldn't be as efficient as a free market. 300 million people making decisions in their own best self interest is more efficient than a computer making those decisions for them. People are better at judging their own self interests and people have better information for decision making.

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[–] Mylon 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

The free market ideal assumes perfectly rational actors. The reality is that marketing, information asymmetry, external costs, strongarm tactics all happen without government intervention and ruin the free market.

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[–] ThisIsntMe123 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Do you want Skynet? Because this is how you get Skynet.

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[–] DeltaBravoTango 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Sure, let's stop pretending companies don't run this country and literally make IBM the president.

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[–] RJKH 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

First executive order: ban AMD

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[–] RJKH 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Intel's CEO: "It's time, activate it."

The true tech wars begin.

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[–] CONGLOM-O 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

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[–] umilmi81 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Watson is not old enough to run for president, you need to be 35. Looking at some of Watson's policies this seems to be a good thing. Entitlements are not a way to build a strong economy. Every dollar that a government spends must first be taken from someone who earned it. Depriving that person of their natural right to invest that dollar as they see fit.

It is a common trap to focus on government spending and look at all the good it does. But every bit of good the government does comes at a cost. A cost of the unseen. The US government takes $2 Trillion per year out of the productive economy. What would that money have done instead if it was left in private hands?

Government is necessary to govern. We need military, courts, police, and prisons. Anything other than those basic functions is a shell game. Taking money from the left pocket, burning 30% of it, and putting it into the right pocket.

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[–] hyperoperation 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The funny thing is that in a few decades this will actually be a feasible option. On the one hand you have nightmare skynet scenarios, but on the other hand it would be nice to have a commander in chief who is actually educated in all of the issues it has to deal with on a daily basis. I for one welcome our new computer overlords.

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