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Vote is the new app that makes voting easy. No more paper booklets full of legal mumbo jumbo. Just press the Vote button and Vote does the rest, done and done.

Vote is the new app that makes voting easy. No more paper booklets full of legal mumbo jumbo. Just press the Vote button and Vote does the rest, done and done. Vote automates your votes by choosing the best candidates for you using SocialAI technology.

dane-pgp 7y ago
I guess you're being satirical, and maybe not everyone appreciates that, but you raise an interesting idea. Could AI (or rather, some simplistic machine learning algorithms) help to inform voters about which candidates share the same values as them, or what position on a ballot proposition they should take to be consistent with other views they have expressed? Of course, that might end up putting a lot of power into the hands of the people making the algorithms, but if the training data and source code were transparent, and the output of the algorithm included a human-readable explanation for its recommendation, then it might actually be a better system than people voting the way they are told to by the only newspaper or TV station that they read/watch. (People should still then go to a ballot box and cast their vote on paper, though). Here is a TED talk which introduces this idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGWML6cI_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGWML6cI_k
- annoyingnoob 7y ago
  That sounds super scary to me. I mean where do you get the information that informs expressions you might make on the internet? Is it those same newspapers and TV stations? Other places where you self-selected to go? If so, whats the difference between going with the source(s) vs going with your expressions? I'll agree that voting should be on paper. I'm not ready to boil it all down to something like a dating app.
fg6hr 7y ago
If I was an evil dictator trying to win elections, this is exactly how I'd appeal to the clueless majority.

dane-pgp 7y ago

I guess you're being satirical, and maybe not everyone appreciates that, but you raise an interesting idea. Could AI (or rather, some simplistic machine learning algorithms) help to inform voters about which candidates share the same values as them, or what position on a ballot proposition they should take to be consistent with other views they have expressed? Of course, that might end up putting a lot of power into the hands of the people making the algorithms, but if the training data and source code were transparent, and the output of the algorithm included a human-readable explanation for its recommendation, then it might actually be a better system than people voting the way they are told to by the only newspaper or TV station that they read/watch. (People should still then go to a ballot box and cast their vote on paper, though). Here is a TED talk which introduces this idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGWML6cI_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGWML6cI_k

annoyingnoob 7y ago
That sounds super scary to me. I mean where do you get the information that informs expressions you might make on the internet? Is it those same newspapers and TV stations? Other places where you self-selected to go? If so, whats the difference between going with the source(s) vs going with your expressions? I'll agree that voting should be on paper. I'm not ready to boil it all down to something like a dating app.

fg6hr 7y ago

If I was an evil dictator trying to win elections, this is exactly how I'd appeal to the clueless majority.