Re:Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
by ggreer on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:24AM
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From The American System and Misleading Labels[1]:
> Brad Templeton, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was present; and he said: "The legal status of AIs is ultimately a legislative question, and in the American system of democracy, legislative questions are decided by the Supreme Court."
> Much laughter followed. We all knew it was true. (And Brad has taken a case or two to the Supreme Court, so he was speaking from experience.)
The whole post is worth reading. It's a little dated and a lot oversimplified, but it drives home a useful point: just because something is named X, that doesn't mean it has anything to do with X.
1. http://lesswrong.com/lw/mh/the_american_system_and_misleadin...
(For those not from the U.S.: The way it's supposed to work is that Congress makes the law, the President executes the law, the Court upholds the law)