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But the Labour problem clearly is, and I'd definitely argue that Brexit is strongly connected.
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I will not resist pointing out that the article on the broken voting system says "A snap general election may be called at any moment."
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And it's accurate. One may be called. At any moment! And I may be attacked by a polar bear at any moment too.
I look forward to observing them tying themselves in knots as they work out the best way of doing it. If they decide.
I had heard of that one. I was curious at the time why people thought that "Tell people verbally that I'm doing something I feel slightly ashamed of." was likely to be more accurate than "Tell a computer that I'm doing something I feel slightly ashamed of." - but I suspect that there are biases in every method which need to be accounted for.
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In the case of the described experiment, I would argue that the gamer would not have had sex with the pornstar, because they did not have direct 'agency': it was all mediated through the system.
If you have a robotic masturbation aid, did you have sex with the microcontroller driving it, or with the system-as-a-whole, or not at all?
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