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Re:DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well ... by monocasa on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:17PM (#34003457)
I'm not sure 3 follows. A walk downtown of any major city in America shows what society does for anyone who's work can't be commoditized or aren't sitting on an existing pile of wealth such that they don't need to work.

They get nothing but tents and shame.

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Re:DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well ... by weatherlite on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:27PM (#34003566)
That's because people like you and me (I'm assuming you're somewhere in the comfortable middle class) vote in for this system. Because so far we've enjoyed a reasonable quality of life. If that's no longer the case, we can vote for other leaders and other systems.
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Re:DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well ... by monocasa on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:31PM (#34003628)
Not really unfortunately, the US hasn't been a democracy reflecting the collective will of it's voters for some time now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

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Re:DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well ... by 1-hour-ago on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:19PM (#34007214)
But people under stress might opt for a some sort of religeous acceptance of hardship, or a cult, or fascisim first.

Where are the examples of the middle voting against the extremes when times get really hard?

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