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Ridiculous comments and claims made by City Councillors
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jje1000
Senior Member
Wards as-is benefit the suburban councillors.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
"These are not the councillors you will want to vote for!"
May the 4th be with you.
May the 4th be with you.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt
4 mins ago
Mammoliti wants the “Major Cultural Organizations program” renamed to the “Political Correctness Funding program.”
Only if we get to rename Ward 7 "there is something in the water"
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pman
Senior Member
I've failed to find the link, but this week Shiner said something like, "I don't make decisions based on facts - a computer could do that."
Laughter at Council's antic hi jinx aside, we have to acknowledge that most of the moronic statements on this post come from suburban councillors who are anti-core, anti-urban, anti-facts and anti-reasoned analysis. All these stupid statements from Mammo, JimmyK, Shiner, Pasternak, Holyday, de Baeremaeker and the rest of the suburban majority have real and incredibly damaging consequences for all of us, including ironically their own constituents. They're an indication that the model of an amalgamated city with an elected council that controls transit planning is profoundly broken.
Laughter at Council's antic hi jinx aside, we have to acknowledge that most of the moronic statements on this post come from suburban councillors who are anti-core, anti-urban, anti-facts and anti-reasoned analysis. All these stupid statements from Mammo, JimmyK, Shiner, Pasternak, Holyday, de Baeremaeker and the rest of the suburban majority have real and incredibly damaging consequences for all of us, including ironically their own constituents. They're an indication that the model of an amalgamated city with an elected council that controls transit planning is profoundly broken.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Councillor Shiner (Ward 24, Willowdale) best summed up the support for such extensions saying: “I was elected to make political decisions, not necessarily fact-based decisions. I could get a computer to do that.”
http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2017/05/toronto-city-councils-scatterbrained-transit-debates-continue
Never mind that computer don't make decisions in and on its' own without programming to guide it...but getting into that would be talking quantum mechanics to someone who can't do remedial math.
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salsa
Senior Member
At least he's being honest.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
If he was even more honest, he would have said it would have been better if it was a computer that was voting that day - or any day, on that matter.
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rbt
Senior Member
This is the reason more than a few super-rich and large pension funds are funding basic AI; ruthless, by-the-numbers, CEOs tend to perform better but they're hard to find as most let emotions get in the way. With the salaries involved, getting a 1% performance improvement and eliminating $300M in compensation is worth it.
I expect voting for management algorithms or target priorities rather than individuals will follow pretty quickly (quickly being 20 or so years down the road).
Palma
Senior Member
the only person he is interested in representing is himself.
jje1000
Senior Member
ADRM
Senior Member
Holy crap, I agree with Jaye Robinson on something.
Videodrome
Senior Member
So, Mikey is just the same as the rest of his family. Just no crack or booze...