Election day
It’s hard to ignore even if you do.
Seems to me that the political parties now spend all their marketing on direct advertising, both old school and social. That’s 100% negging their opponents.
The only sales pitch that isn’t negging is their own policies and that go out via press releases, boring videos and coverage of Parliament. Nobody pays any attention.
They can afford to run only negative ads because 1. That’s what all the opponents are doing, 2. If anyone gets pissed off enough to vote for a minor party that vote flows back to them via preferences anyway.
I’m wondering when a party will run without any policies and go 100% negative. I would. Policies just feed the other side’s negging.
At that point we can then replace the whole political system with a very cheap LLM. Or replace each party with a separate LLM to create the appearance of independence.
On a more philosophical note, the Australian political experience just proves that a very large majority of people are just human LLMs, capable of wordsoup at best. Never critical thinking.
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