<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">It seems odd, but makes sense in context.<div><br></div><div>The one from the Pope’s secretary, one Paolo -BORGIA- I keep for sentimental reasons. </div><div><br></div><div>Everything else is to answer the questions, “Well, why don’t you just write your representatives? That’ll make things change.”</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. <br><br>I did this experiment in 2018, so I might try again this year, and actually keep track of the response rate.</div><div><br></div><div>Email was even worse.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On May 8, 2020, at 3:48 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Why in the world would you want to save them? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:32 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That’s what we already have. I have a binder of such letters. <br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On May 8, 2020, at 8:40 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Is that what we want from our politicians - boilerplate? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:10 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] ai politicians<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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