Yes, it would be stupid as a policy for the common good. But the common good is not really anyone's job. You know that XKCD comic about standards? ("Now you hav

Yes, it would be stupid as a policy for the common good. But the common good is not really anyone's job. You know that XKCD comic about standards? ("Now you have n+1 of them.") Modern governance after a few centuries of evolution is like that times a million, and this misadapted collective decision-making is the great crisis of our time, a much bigger deal than climate change, for example. (If we could collectively think clearly and coordinate then we'd see climate change as a serious problem needing both immediate action and longer-term research and technology development, but probably well within our power.) Programmers might help by making better tools for thinking and coordinating. Perhaps with a collective IQ boost for enough of us we can avoid the worst.