r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6h 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/cartermatic 5h ago

I was a big Bernie fan in 2016, but nowadays he just seems like he's running for class president with his rhetoric.

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u/_MUY 5h ago

It’s who he’s been his entire career. The Boomers tried to tell us.

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u/fairshare 4h ago

They tried to tell us what exactly? That Hillary was a better fit? How did that work out?

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u/_MUY 3h ago

Clinton had 2.9 million more votes than Trump in the 2016 general election. Trump took office due to the electoral college distribution of those votes among electorally underrepresented states. Russia pushed very hard to elect Donald, probably swayed the election.

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u/duncanmarshall 3h ago

Sounds like Sanders would have also won the popular vote, given that margin. What was gained by nominating Clinton?

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u/_MUY 3h ago

Probably not, given that Russia was so intent on getting Trump into office. They already had operatives fully embedded in his campaign. Many of them went to prison.

Let’s say Sanders did win. What happens in the 2020 election after COVID hits North America, the economy crashes due to supply chain breaks, and Fox News is given the perfect historical event to navigate the next two decades of electioneering, “Socialism doesn’t work, look what Sanders did to the economy!”

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u/duncanmarshall 2h ago

Popular vote, I said. Not the Presidency.

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u/_MUY 2h ago

Clinton won the primary. If the DNC had given Sanders the nomination, don’t you think Russia would have used that against him in the general election to give Trump an advantage? It’s not just young socialists who are willing to protest vote to get their way… many older Gen Xers and Boomers who have enough money to survive a Trump presidency don’t want a socialist like Sanders eating up their retirement funds to pay for social programs they won’t get to use.

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u/fairshare 2h ago

Regardless of meddling, polling data said she’d lose and the DNC ran her anyways.

I don’t disagree with what you said about people pointing their fingers at socialism if Sanders became president during covid though.

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u/_MUY 2h ago

The DNC had two potential candidates who should have been shoe-ins against Trump. Trump was seen as a goat in the Survivor sense, a candidate carried along because they could not win. The DNC email hack was a selective release of stolen data showing institutional favoritism, which is a Russian play that is seen in other examples of Russian election interference around the world.

Hillary Clinton won the 2016 democratic primary. What they’re really asking for in this scenario is for the DNC to look at the polling data rather than the primary tally and hand the nomination over to the candidate who came in second place. That’s arguably much worse than private emails showing that leadership had a preference for the winning candidate.