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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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