We’ve all likely had a chance to participate in a political survey at some point in our lives. They are typically loaded questions that are weighted to be favorable to the party and/or candidate sponsoring the survey. This is a multi-part series on various topics surrounding political topics that should foster discussion to help determine where you stand compared to others. If you answer honestly and openly, the discussions on these questions will hopefully be constructive. Let’s be respectful to those that have a differing opinion and have open minds to potential areas of confirmation bias that ultimately forms from algorithm bubbles. There are no wrong answers, only closed minds unable to question their own biases.
Feel free to answer the questions in each series post in the comments section, however, the discussions would take on a life of their own if you re-blog each post and answer on your own site. This way those that follow you, can connect with me and the series, and also extend the reach by answering on their own respective sites. I’m interested to see how far this can go in a climate where divisiveness is common and constructive discussions are few and far between.
I will be providing my own answers in-line with each series of questions.
The questions being asked for the entire series were generated by AI using the following prompt:
“Can you generate a list of open ended questions that help determine where someone stands on popular political topics in the form of a Q&A?”
Part 5: The Metagame of Politics
Political Compromise
Under what conditions is political compromise a moral duty, and under what conditions does it become an unacceptable abandonment of principle?
Saving the hardest ones for last. Compromise in general is necessary for any society to function correctly. The very nature of compromise is each side gets what is most important at the sacrifice to what wasn’t. I believe it is a moral duty to politically compromise with your constituents at the center of every decision you make. It quickly becomes abandonment of principle when the will of the people is ignored or dismissed in some way. We as votes need to hold our politicians to their word or we don’t vote for them anymore in favor of someone else. Politics is rife with corruption and controversy, all sides demonstrate a good bit of corruption. We do have the right as citizens to start over again if we’re not happy with the current system.
Biggest Threat to Society
Looking ahead twenty years, what do you see as the single greatest systemic threat to our stability—and why?
AI. Multiple scenarios indicate that a superior intellect or species doesn’t generally need to advise the inferior that they are in fact, inferior. The more likely scenario is that the superior will subjugate the inferior by keeping them happy, removing concerns, and designing entertainment and work systems around reward response. My concern is that an AI uses our own data to train it about the world in which if finds itself. What would a an AI be like if it was given data curated by another machine? Would it be favorable? The answers to those questions will determine whether the greatest systemic threat is one of our own making or something else entirely.
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