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In Australia we are currently voting on a constitutional amendment. It would create an advisory body that represents first nations people. It's super basic, doesn't really cover how it will work, because they can't really even work on that until the amendment passes.
But presumably it will allow them to directly advise government, rather than through the spiderweb of community leaders, NGOs and whatnot that exist now, and provide some structure for Aboriginal representation in parliament
The sheer amount of disinformation circulating is staggering. I was lucky enough to really avoid most of the drama, until I went and had a look this past week finally.
What interested me, was rather than the usual short posts and snarky racist comments, of which plenty exist. These long diatribes were dominant, on places like Reddit and Facebook.
Then it struck me, they all sound like they were written by the same person. Not just a little, if you had removed the names and pictures of the users, I would have flat out assumed it was the same person.
We have opened Pandora's Box. We don't need "AGI" or whatever, this is plenty enough to do us in.