Reality Always Wins | Who Russians Really Want in Charge
In his latest Reality Always Wins post, Paul Saunders digs into a striking recent finding: 55% of economically-active Russians say they’d prefer to be governed by an AI algorithm than by their current corrupt officials. Saunders reads the result less as enthusiasm for machine rule than as a quiet protest vote against Russia’s political system—a hope that something, anything, might be less rotten than the status quo. The twist is that Russian internet censors seem to have reached the same conclusion: the original poll has mysteriously vanished from the job site that conducted it, now redirecting to a survey about April Fools’ Day office pranks.