[ExI] ai in education

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 08/03/2026 16:28, spike wrote:
> I am not so much a believer in the current POTUS.  I am neutral on him.  But I am a firm believer in the process that got him there.  That process selected him in a 7-0 clean sweep of all the states in play.  Shrug.  I didn’t think that would happen, so I lost money. 


You're assuming here that the process was simple democracy. I'm pretty sure that's not the case. I don't know if it was primarily facebook, primarily the russians, or something else, or some combination, but it wasn't just plain democracy, it was democracy influenced heavily by lots of false information.

Do you really think that Trump could get elected (twice!) without some kind of shady shenanigans? Even I don't think americans en-masse are that stupid.

Democracy, as we used to know it, is pretty much dead at this point. We always knew it wasn't a very good system, the big problem now is that we still haven't devised anything better.

Perhaps I'd better shut up now, this is dangerously political and I don't want to get banned.

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Ben