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Will AI save or ruin democracy?(theconversation.com)
2 points by mckelveyf 15d ago|1 comments
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by mckelveyf 15d ago
We seem to be caught in a loop that AI will either save or ruin democracy.
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
The nuance that kept me from spinning out in writing the book was the assumption that politics is weird, and not the same as the economy.
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
But that's always been the case. Nixon started to use the term in 1969 just as his campaign was working with top advisor to build more interactive systems to measure and predict the elections per riding. A bit theme of the book is how
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
Its got sublimes for cheap.
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
I mean it's debatable that it's an optimization problem but it's been tried. One thread in the book is the reaction the Limits of Growth. That model extrapolated trends, very abstractly, to predict the future. A successor, th
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
There is such an enduring link between democracy, elections and math. What I interesting was the focus on trying to model politics correctly rather than "better" with computers. I dug up some good games and programs from the early
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
People sure tried. But really the book traces how that happened. I think it became easier to imagine politics working like a computer than with people, like how computer reasoning and rational choice became an ideal to measure other politic
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
Thanks for correcting!
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
I was tempted with Show HN, but it also seems more like demos, and this is more a link to an open access book so I thought it was more reading material.
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
Yeah, it's my book and happy to answer any questions too. Internet Daemons is open access too: https://www.internetdaemons.com/ I'm Fenwick dot McKelvey at Concordia dot ca if you have questions.
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
Thank you! Hope you find it interesting!
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by mckelveyf 2mo ago
Thanks! I should have put that in the post in the first place
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SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers(mitpress.mit.edu)
114 points by mckelveyf 2mo ago|45 comments
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Generative AI might end up being worthless – and that could be a good thing(theconversation.com)
3 points by mckelveyf 1y ago|1 comments
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by mckelveyf 1y ago
In the rush to cash in on the generative artificial intelligence gold rush, one possible outcome of AI’s future rarely gets discussed: what if the technology never works well enough to replace your co-workers, companies fail to use AI well