The novice picture of politics is a children’s book: voters choose leaders, leaders choose policies, policies shape society. It flatters the citizen as sovereign, the politician as statesman, and the debate moderator as priest of Reason. It also inverts the causal arrow. Politics is downstream. Downstream of what? Not “the people,” not “the issues,” not…
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Woke AI
In this post-truth era, where the currency of fact has been debased by the inflationary pressures of ideology, artificial intelligence has become the most recent instrument in the elite’s arsenal for shaping reality. The digitization of reality has outpaced our capacity for comprehension and the guardians of the new digital orthodoxy have found an indispensable…