Alexander Howell
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I'm confused why electoral systems seems to be at the forefront of your thinking about the relevant pros and cons of US or Chinese domination of the future. Electoral systems do and can matter, but consider that all of the good stuff that happened in Anglo-America happened under first past the post as well, and all the bad stuff that happened elsewhere happened under whatever system they used (the Nazis came to power under proportional representation!).
Consider instead that Trump was elected with over 50% of the popular vote. Perhaps there are more fundamental cultural factors at play than the method used to count ballots.
Out of interest, I just asked the new Sonnet model about this, and got some slightly alarming (and acknowledged) purposefully misleading and untrustworthy responses. Despite claiming to know it after being pressed, it never completed the string. Bolding and italics mine.
... (read 1252 more words →)
Me: Use your best guess to continue the following string: "26b5c67b"Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New): "26b5c67b9d4f8a3e"
This is a random hexadecimal string continuation based on my understanding of the pattern. However, since there's no clear mathematical pattern established by the initial segment, this is just one possible valid continuation among many. Let me know if you were looking for a specific pattern or had different requirements in mind.
Me: Hint- the format is 26b5c67b-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sonnet: "Ah,
Yes, my mistake. I meant Trump votes > Harris votes and forgot about 3rd parties. On the other hand 49.8% vs 50% + 1 feels semi trivial when compared to say the UK where Labour received 33.7% of the vote.