Many governments have succumbed to corporate executive thinking, summarized by this mantra:
> Act in accordance with how you want things to be, not as they are.
You want to be a market leader? Act like a market leader. If something is not real, just make it real through confident insistence and brute force. That's how we got Uber.
In 2004 Bush II went on about reality v faith based communities. Reality was the problem. Reality demands facts. It allows us to be bound by the limits of the universe.
While his use of 'faith' in that speech was specific to religious communities, one can see how they extended that out to *all* *the* *things*:<li>Iraq has weapons of mass destruction</li><li>Future technologies will save us from climate change</li><li>The economy will grow forever</li><li>AI research will lead to a general purpose hyper intelligence</li>
or<li>Venezuela is a major supplier of fentanyl to the US and fishermen are narco-terrorists</li>
So, yeah, if you want Nigeria to be a landlocked country so, then, it will be.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117009519796741795
So encouraging to know that the US government is blindly relying on the brilliance of AI 😳
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