Quote from: blablahblah on September 02, 2014, 08:29:57 PM

Quote from: AnonyMint on September 02, 2014, 05:14:41 AM

One last attempt to explain it to Armstrong... (I grow weary of repeating myself)...

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Subject: Centralized tally is the antithesis of bottom-up voting; decapitation of figureheads notwithstanding
From: AnonyMint
Date: Tue, September 2, 2014 1:06 am
To: Armstrong Economics
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http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/09/01/global-warming-being-exposed-as-a-fraud/

Quote from: Armstrong

Global Warming has been a fantastic excuse to raise taxes and now regulate cow farting in Europe. How about eliminating all the hot air created by worthless government programs? If we eliminated career politicians and voted from our laptops on every initiative, think of all the limousines that would not be driving them around and special plane flights for their vacations.

So Martin Armstrong wants to replace the bureaucrats with a centralized
computer for tallying votes on top-down issues thus inherently controlled
by the power of the global elite. Sure the global elite will give this
Pyrrhic victory to Armstrong and all the "end the corruption" idealistic
fools. But just like the outcome of the French Revolution, the figureheads
are changed but the systemic power vacuum of democracy remained.

I don't know why Armstrong can't understand this. Is his IQ too low or is
he is just stubbornly invested in his incorrect idea?

It's what the "Resource Based Economy" crowd keep pushing with their A.I. computer that centrally allocates resources. Come on, you don't need to be Sir Roger Penrose to see where they're going with this.

For example:
Epic breakthroughs where programs start passing the Turing test. Notice how they're usually dressed-up with a nice GUI or artificial face and voice for user-friendliness?
Then, "hey why don't we use, that is *ask* these amazing artificial intelligences how to allocate some local resources the most fairly?"
...

You finally wrote something that interests me. Hmmm, could Armstrong's Socrates be a ploy after all? I doubt it, I think he is just invested in his world view, yet it is interesting to contemplate.