Daily Archives: June 7, 2009

Link: Nano Nets & Lucky Machines

Nano Nets and Lucky Machines, posted by me on Netdynam 2.0

Subject matter: intelligent agents, artificial intelligence, machine-based minds

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Spoiled

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars. (post: Bill Moyers on the “Single Payer” plan for health care on PBS
By John Amato Sunday Jun 07, 2009.)

Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $4,026,933)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $2,833,731)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $2,758,468)
Ben Nelson (DLC-NE- $1,196,799)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $1,184,113)
Joe Lieberman (DLC- CT- $1,036,302)
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $1,035,530)
Chuck Schumer (D-NY- $981,400)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $929,207)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA- $884,724)

The dollars are contributions from the medical-insurance complex to Senators charged with serving their constituents. Kind of begs some questions.

Although Explorations is not focused on politics and the political economy, in this case I can’t help myself. In truth I’m preparing a long riff on the Republican implosion. It’s not ready.

Still, in our interesting times, the US has a President elected in part due to a grassroots money-raising dynamo, and, against this is the normal spoils system. It helps that only 50-ish percent vote in National elections, and, by the way, that rate of participation is–at least–halved in most local elections. It’s a weird system that mixes a mass of citizenry with plutocrats and the corporate elite.

Many years ago a mentor told me that one often is compelled to uncover what he termed “the agenda behind the agenda” and then to discover who is holding the gold that funds this agenda behind the agenda.

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