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Representative democracy doesn't really represent me. I want to go online and fill out a long, myers briggs like personality test that judges my political lean
by snarfy 6y ago
Representative democracy doesn't really represent me.
I want to go online and fill out a long, myers briggs like personality test that judges my political leanings, and then have that data fed to a script that votes on all the issues for me directly, skipping the middlemen. Collectively those scripts would be a far better representation than any human.
Replace all politicians with tiny shell scripts.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoThere is not a person, alive, dead, or not yet born that I would trust to write such code.
- andy_ppp 6y agoAs opposed to politicians who take bribes in the form of campaign donations?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoSo instead of repealing bad legislation we should invent a whole new system from scratch using technologies the very inventors barely understand? Eesh.
- andy_ppp 6y agoHaha, I’m only playing devil’s advocate, it’s a terrible idea clearly.
- syshum 6y agoThis is the self driving care problem People want a perfect system to replace an imperfect one. When instead they should rationally look at it and ask "is it better than what we have now" instead they pick it apart for any flaws then proclaim that is not workable because it is not 100% perfect every time
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoNot asking for perfection mate. Just don't ask me for a blessing when the cure is worse than the disease.
- ryukafalz 6y agoI like the idea of direct democracy, but I don’t think I’d go that far with it. More appealing here would be to have the ability to delegate my votes on issues in certain sectors to someone I trust. Maybe with a delay so I can override their decision if I disagree with something important.
- anoncake 6y agoI volunteer to write that script. I am very trustworthy and totally won't abuse this position to push my own political leanings.
- mcv 6y agoHow will those shell scripts discuss the merits of various proposals? Discussion and compromise are vital aspects of political decision making.
- andy_ppp 6y agoIsn't that what surveillance capitalism is alsready doing on your behalf?
- imtringued 6y agoYou would have to keep those scripts secret otherwise someone could easily build an adversarial neural network or a hacker might just find an exploit. Secret scripts that decide everything isn't a democracy. That's an AI government and we all know that we shouldn't let AI have military access.