{"id":892,"date":"2005-10-27T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=892"},"modified":"2005-10-27T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T19:37:00","slug":"president-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"President for life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthshine.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">earthshine<\/a> has suggested that we all vote for me for president in 2020.  Actually, he suggested that we all do it in one state in 2012 (to make a point) take a few states (and their associated senate seats) in 2016 (to drive home the point and establish &#8220;winnability&#8221;), and then seriously go for the gold in 2020.  <\/p>\n<p>With no humility whatsoever, I accept this bold plan.  Hooray for me.  If it&#8217;s anything like today&#8217;s videoconference experience, it&#8217;ll be a massive technical pain in the butt with a surprisingly positive outcome.<\/p>\n<p>I have a first incentive to offer to my early supporters:  According to my calculations, our future AI overlords will make themselves known to us at some point between 2020 and 2030.  If you put me in power, I may well be in the position to bargain with them and offer immortality as well as virtual reality experiences so potent that they&#8217;ll make crack cocaine look like a lollipop.  <\/p>\n<p>Think on these things as we watch the current establishment tear itself apart, only to be reborn in its own image, every four to eight years:  Who do you want in charge when the robots rise up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>earthshine has suggested that we all vote for me for president in 2020. Actually, he suggested that we all do it in one state in 2012 (to make a point) take a few states (and their associated senate seats) in 2016 (to drive home the point and establish &#8220;winnability&#8221;), and then seriously go for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}