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Although I agree online voting should be obvious over the globe in 2018, what intrigues me more is why we're still using a system where the elected have zero re
by stelonix 9y ago
Although I agree online voting should be obvious over the globe in 2018, what intrigues me more is why we're still using a system where the elected have zero responsibility with their campaign. Nothing happens if a politicians promises X and delivers Y or even worse, delivers the opposite of X.
In a civilization that has shown time and time again politicians are most often in bed with corporations and not with their electorate, why are we not using smart contracts for that? Why is it we are not using machine learning to find out when judges apply different sentences for the same crime depending on whether the accused is black or white, something pretty common in my country?
Since I first understood how deep learning works, I've been puzzled by the lack of verification we could be doing in order to mathematically detect corruption, injustice, prejudice, racism, hatred. All the tools are there, yet our laws and elections conveniently ignore those technologies and we're stuck in a system where we have to trust trust. What is so inherently good with the current system that we ditch mathematics, our most basic objective language and keep on using a system based on lies, promises that never come to happen and lobbying? There's something clearly rotten with the current concept of "democracy" being used in this planet yet the only tools which can fix it are ignored.
- jacquesm 9y agoOnline voting is not a solution to any problem that needs fixing and has a whole slew of problems all it's own. - easier to commit voting fraud - no paper trail to audit - further dis-enfranchisement of the poor - no way to check if votes aren't done under pressure - harder to verify votes aren't bought
- graphitezepp 9y agoA closely watched ballot box filled with pen and paper votes is more secure than any online system will ever be.
- croon 9y agoEverything in the universe can be calculated, but the math side isn't what's hard, it's data collection and verification, and being sure that your algorithm is either complete, or encompassing enough to produce the correct results. In order to "mathematically detect corruption, injustice, prejudice, racism, hatred", you need actionable metrics to create the model to begin with, and be sure that those aren't biased or incomplete. Occupational blindness seems very recurring in tech. Just because a system can be built to solve a problem doesn't mean the system you end up building will.
- haZard_OS 9y ago>Everything in the universe can be calculated... I'm afraid not. There are real limits (physical and otherwise) to what can be calculated.
- pjc50 9y ago> mathematically detect corruption, injustice, prejudice, racism, hatred. The problem in short is that the people in power and quite a lot of those supporters don't want those problems detected.