<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">..</span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"></span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">..</span><span style="font-size:14px">Life</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">'</span><span class="gmail_default" style="">s</span><span style="font-size:14px"> goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah</span></span><br aria-hidden="true" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">I'm stayin' alive</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">..    </span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">    a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY">great song</a> by the Bee Gees!</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">    Yes, let's keep this important email to <b>stay alive!.</b>.. </span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">Thanks Kate for doing this!</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">I can relate to Kaiser Kus's reflections about how our foresight about the role of technology in socio-political evolution in recent times has profoundly changed from one of optimism, with the <a href="https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/">rise of Ai based targeting systems to one of alarm</a>. </span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">    In reflection, then it might be Email lists like this one that might ultimately bring some level of hope to this geo-political equation. </span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">    The availability of Ai also has a rather profound up-side..</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">that is: it seems social decision theory is apt to make some rather profound advancements in no small part due to Ai's ability to work with humans, conceptualize and help write up the latest advancements in this promising field. This includes a generalized framework for the application of the strategic automation algebra associated with mechanism design's</span></span>revelation principle<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">     so the upside to Ai's rise seems to also have a bright future.</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">but the down side that seems to also come along with information theoretic democracy..  seems just as scary as we might be prudently expecting..    once the surveillance of private political preference data streams becomes viable, the temptation by those wishing to use Ai sourced by this </span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">preference data<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="">stream will become an almost irresistible temptation to prevail over the otherwise democratic consensus of the electorate. </span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">  </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">     yes- lets keep the LT email list Alive!</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">..</span><span style="font-size:14px">Life</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">'</span><span class="gmail_default">s</span><span style="font-size:14px"> goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah</span></span><br aria-hidden="true" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">I'm stayin' alive</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">..</span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">   -peter</span>  <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">(saxMan) Lindener</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">      </span></div></div>