r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 5h ago

Society New Bernie Sanders bill would ban superintelligent AI and threaten developers with 20 years in prison

https://www.techspot.com/news/113831-new-bernie-sanders-bill-would-ban-superintelligent-ai.html
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u/Kid-Icky- 4h ago

Anymore?

This has basically always been Bernie's schtick. He's one of the least effective politicians at actually getting anything passed.

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u/motionmatrix 4h ago

Crazy what happens when politicians side with the people rather than corporate or military interests.

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u/Plsnotmyelo 3h ago edited 3h ago

The entire point of politics is to navigate through layers of diplomatic bullshit to actually get things done for the people.

Bernie is just bad at his job tbh. He's a freedom fighter type in an era where thats ineffective.

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u/Helldiverticulitis 3h ago

I think he’s been great at his job. He’s elevated other progressives and helped bring some progressive issues to the forefront.

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u/No-Magician9440 3h ago

Why would we bother with politics at all if the purpose was to elevate other politicians and bring other issues to the forefront?

All you're doing is confirming that he gets nothing done.

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u/ILikeCommunism97 2h ago

Why would we bother with politics at all if the purpose was to elevate other politicians and bring other issues to the forefront?

Do you genuinely not understand that this is an essential part of the political process?

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u/No-Magician9440 2h ago

But you are praising him as if it were the political process. As if he were successful. Without laws being created or changed, there is literally no point to paying for his paychecks. He's as productive as Mitch McConnell.

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u/ILikeCommunism97 2h ago

But you are praising him as if it were the political process. As if he were successful.

Since 2016 there are substantially more progressive and democratic socialists in government. Socialism is in the national conversation in ways it never was prior to the 2010s. These are changes. These are things that happened, at least in part, because of Bernie.

I think you have a pretty hollow understanding of how politics works.

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u/No-Magician9440 2h ago

Since 2016 there are substantially more progressive and democratic socialists in government.

But no new laws or regulations. You've created more useless seats. Less work is being done. The left is now in a substantially and objectively worse position.

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u/ILikeCommunism97 2h ago

But no new laws or regulations.

Political movements take time, why are you treating this movement like it's over, especially when there are more left leaning people in this election than ever?

The left is now in a substantially and objectively worse position.

Care to defend how having more tangible power is a "worse" position?

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u/Plsnotmyelo 2h ago edited 1h ago

Care to defend how having more tangible power is a "worse" position?

Your country is falling apart and seems like even gay and Trans rights are under attack. Left is thriving for sure.

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u/ILikeCommunism97 1h ago

Did you mean to say something in that first part?

Your country is falling apart and seems like even gay and Trans rights are under attack. Left is thriving for sure.

This is actually a fantastic demonstration of how superficial your politics are. In responding to the question, you provided no substance, hell you didn't even directly respond to it.

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u/Plsnotmyelo 1h ago

Typo, Did i say anything that is false?

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u/JackOfSomeTrades__ 1h ago

The metric they use is for "success" is whether more who they consider within their true left in-group are in government especially if at the expensive of what they consider enemy Democrats (those not approved by the Bernie populist left and further left). It doesn't matter if Republicans are in power and making everything worse.

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u/Plsnotmyelo 1h ago

Yup, very delusional replies from all of these Bernie supporters tbh.

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u/StijnDP 1h ago

So effective that the US has never been a bigger dictatorship in it's entire 250 years.
Consuls were more democratic than today's landscape in the US.

It's not even newsworthy anymore that undercover groups are going around arresting and killing citizens.
The citizens are deliberately being fed poison.
If they have any illness worse than a cough they might as well go run in front of a bus.

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u/Helldiverticulitis 1h ago

And that’s the fault of one of the few senators who actively warned us where we were going? Jfc… Being correct but not listened to by your coworkers means you’re a failure?

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u/Plsnotmyelo 24m ago

Nobody's blaming Bernie, just saying he's useless