[ExI] ai politicians

[SR Ballard]

It seems odd, but makes sense in context.

The one from the Pope’s secretary, one Paolo -BORGIA- I keep for sentimental reasons. 

Everything else is to answer the questions, “Well, why don’t you just write your representatives? That’ll make things change.”

I also keep a copy of the letter I sent them. Some of them are quite comically missing the point of my letters. I even have examples of letters I wrote back explaining why their response  was useless.

In this example I sent about 100 letters, and received less than 40 replies, with only 2 responces that -maybe- could be made by someone who actually read my letters. Or just better boilerplates. 

I did this experiment in 2018, so I might try again this year, and actually keep track of the response rate.

Email was even worse.

SR Ballard

> On May 8, 2020, at 3:48 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Why in the world would you want to save them?   bill w
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>> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:32 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> That’s what we already have. I have a binder of such letters. 
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>> SR Ballard
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>>> On May 8, 2020, at 8:40 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> Is that what we want from our politicians  - boilerplate?  bill w
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>>>> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:10 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>>> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
>>>> Subject: Re: [ExI] ai politicians
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>>>> Digital politician staff, perhaps.  Do you think the politician actually composed those letters in the first place?  Some of them might not have even read them.
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>>>> I assumed they were done by low-level staffers.  I am suggesting it could be completely automated.  They probably already are for the most part.  The staffer would skim the letter in a few seconds, pick up on the subject, then reply with the gun letter, the Covid letter, the abortion letter, that kind of thing.  I don’t suppose real politicians above about a state representative reads letters from the proletatiat.
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