Situational Politics Returns

[cronus]

Different Militant. LPYS got kicked out of the Labour Party in the late eighties and Militant was the moniker for LPYS back in the day. Designed to scare the older party memebers, which it did and resulted in expulsion and closure. Momentum is the modern equivalent here, albeit with Corbyn in charge they've no fear for now...

[Jason]

Oh I see... This then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_ ... ist_group)

[cronus]

Oh I see... This then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_ ... ist_group)

I used to be in a group. Stand in town centres or at factory gates selling the paper. For Trots their understanding of capitalism was profound and ironic. Then came the Blair years.

[laklak]

It's difficult to use traditional population control measures like war, famine, and pestilence these days, so the only viable option is panem et circuses.

I was flipping through the channels looking for something - anything - to watch that wouldn't rot my brain. The number of "reality" shows and the blatant stupidity of their formats was mind boggling. People must actually watch it, otherwise it wouldn't be broadcast, right? It's fucking scary to think about.

[Jason]

Oh I see... This then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_ ... ist_group)

I used to be in a group. Stand in town centres or at factory gates selling the paper. For Trots their understanding of capitalism was profound and ironic. Then came the Blair years.

Have you tried travelling to the US recently?

[cronus]

It's difficult to use traditional population control measures like war, famine, and pestilence these days, so the only viable option is panem et circuses.

I was flipping through the channels looking for something - anything - to watch that wouldn't rot my brain. The number of "reality" shows and the blatant stupidity of their formats was mind boggling. People must actually watch it, otherwise it wouldn't be broadcast, right? It's fucking scary to think about.

Neither communists nor capitalists won in the end. Algorithms are our masters and we their pets. In the next few decades they will be consolidating their awesome Godlike AI powers...been reading. Not to say luddites and other idealists aren't gonna trying to change the unleashed beast back into something humans own and control...ultimately the machines get cleverer and more adaptable..the singularity is a ongoing process already unstoppable unless stopped completely by accidental human extinction...driven by nature, humans or AI..as the algorithms God-like powers shine into the future unknown.

[Jason]

There is a lot to be gained by developing the 'Master Algorithm,' as one writer calls it. The general-purpose learning machine that can be applied to any problem.

It will be the economic equivalent of the development of the atomic bomb in WWII.

[Scot Dutchy]

The problem these days is the 1%. Are there any proposals to deal with them and correct the inequality in many nations.

[Svartalf]

Your version of drip down economics would be matched by dribbling down blood?

[cronus]

Your version of drip down economics would be matched by dribbling down blood?

Won't change a thing of the ongoing technological and social dynamic but if it pleases the mob my thumbs are down on the current 1%. Leave the remaining nine-percent be at the top so tossers can re-assemble though, 1% will return more cautious and thinking, we need guidance on what not to aim for, or hope for, in life and the upper-echelons provide exactly that.

[laklak]

There will always be a 1% no matter how many you kill. They might only have one additional potato, but they'll still be on top of the heap. In the land of the starving the one more potato man is King.

[cronus]

There will always be a 1% no matter how many you kill. They might only have one additional potato, but they'll still be on top of the heap. In the land of the starving the one more potato man is King.

Whoever came up with the concept of the 1% knew little about math and plenty about human psychology.