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Explaining the need for human representatives in an AI controlled society
For the offline things in life
It is true that much of social and political activity occurs online. The AI would likely be able to immediately control financial and economic activity, as well as write ...
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When countries combine, how do they pick a new name?
You're spoiled for choice of good answers here: considerations of political motivation from Tom; the socio-linguistic and cultural contexts in which real nations have formed from AlexP, and supporting ...
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When countries combine, how do they pick a new name?
To add one more option to the already-impressive list: they could go with an acronym.
The name Pakistan was coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who in January 1933 first ...
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When countries combine, how do they pick a new name?
Not countries, but provincies of Dominican Republic:
"Monte Cristi" and "Puerto Plata" merged into "Monte Plata"
"Bayajá" and "La Jaguana" merged ...
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When countries combine, how do they pick a new name?
Apart from the valid other answers (yep, upvoted 'em all), another aspect to consider comes to my mine.
How much do they merge?
In some cases, the states go all-in, like the Federal Republic of ...
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When countries combine, how do they pick a new name?
Sometimes, they do merge their names; for example,
Tan-ganyika + Zan-zibar $\rightarrow$ Tanzania.
Italy was a place before it was a country. It is pretty natural for a country which occupies the ...
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When countries combine, how do they pick a new name?
It will depend on political facts
You have to ask yourself two questions:
Why are these countries merging?
How will the newly formed nation be organized politically?
The bottom line is that naming a ...
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When countries combine, how do they pick a new name?
There's a few options going for Historical precedents:
1: A Colonized country (e.g. taken over by force) - New old country name - see: New England, New York, New South Wales, New Zealand etc.
2: ...
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Can Communism become a stable economic strategy? How?
This question makes some basic flawed premises, which make it hard for me to answer...
First the flawed premise,
Ration Cards... Ration cards are not a part of capitalism. They are issued by the ...
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Can Communism become a stable economic strategy? How?
People forget communism has worked without turning into a dictatorship - on a small scale like the anarcho-communist town of Marinaleda which has been in Spain since 1979 and has a population of over ...
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What's the most likely "post democracy" form of political government?
Plutocracy/Technocracy.
First off, let's assume current trends of today continue. Corporation grow in power and gradually vie to exert more and more influence over politics than they do even today.
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