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You made quite a soup of this by mixing talk of votes for individuals in a riding to get a winner and the formation of a majority/minority government from the riding results. It's easy to get a majority winner in a riding by using ranked ballots or a second runoff vote. And yes, some segment of the ...

AI will predict how a fetus would vote and the vote will be counted.

Legal voting age to become minus 9 months.

No, actually. Even if you think they're "good," they're not the people for whom you voted. So it doesn't solve the "majority" problem. Nothing solves the "majority problem" except a unanimous vote. Because there will always be a minority which did not vote for the majo...

You substituted "happiness" for "good", without explaining why it is good.

And certainly you could do the same for any number of things ... love, power, wealth, knowledge ...

I have noticed his reactions many times

What you are seeing is mental issues rather than programming.

He's not programmed

Interesting is different from not interesting is different from not want anything to do with them.

Your techniques though I find wrong-headed and underhanded in the sense that you think you hold to a position of moral superiority. And I do not think that we can be so certain now. But the crucial thing is the freedom to discuss it. Your strategy, Flash, achieves the precise opposite of what one g...

Same difference

Talent for mischief

Same issue.

What makes one thing better than another?

Then a shotgun is not needed …

You don't need a gun at all, if you are only interested in questions.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2026 9:38 pm

phyllo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2026 8:05 pm Are you proud of your definition?

Oxford is. Cambridge is. Lots of other sources cite the same definition.

So why not?

You might as well be proud of the sack of potatoes you bought in the grocery store.

We may be differing on how far down we demand democracy. I might not consider JUST the voters deciding between the candidates of these two parties enough. For example, suppose in both parties the candidate was chosen based on the size of the bribes given to the members of the "candidate select...