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Be nice to upgrade democracy to git. Not, like in theory, but for real. New law? Push the update. Pull old law easy peasy. diff/grep on newer versions or the

Be nice to upgrade democracy to git. Not, like in theory, but for real. New law? Push the update. Pull old law easy peasy. diff/grep on newer versions or the county's over. Vote on what makes it to prod, sub-teams for smaller areas like parking tickets, etc. Yeah, it's simple at the end, but digitizing it all, linking it to the underlying databases, root privileges, etc. would make it all run much smoother. Be nice to see people get involved more too.

eob 6y ago
You might enjoy reading about Taiwan’s experiments in this direction [1]. They’ve used an online system to craft 26 pieces of legislation now with public participation. Now quite full-on “governance by git” but a very cool step in that direction. Pretty sure it’s one of Audrey Tang’s projects [2]. She’s a member of the cabinet who is also an all-around hacker. [1] https://congress.crowd.law/case-vtaiwan.html https://congress.crowd.law/case-vtaiwan.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
allenleein 6y ago
Very interesting. How about upgrade knowledge to git? People iterate knowledge together in a git-based knowledge base network. Upload your own knowledge base, wiki to the network. Push/pull -> new thoughts, breakthroughs... Merge -> different knowledge branch Then build a search engine on top of it.
- Balgair 6y ago
  Jesus, that would make research papers easier. Historiography via pull requests and push comments? Yes!
rajacombinator 6y ago
git blame would be a fun one here. of course, they’d never let you see the real commit history.
TacoSteemers 6y ago
You might enjoy this article. "How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request Washington DC has made GitHub the authoritative digital source for DC laws." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-the-law-with-a-github-pull-request/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-th...
mrblues 6y ago
Financial laws like employment and taxes should be formalized in code as much as possible.

eob 6y ago

You might enjoy reading about Taiwan’s experiments in this direction [1]. They’ve used an online system to craft 26 pieces of legislation now with public participation. Now quite full-on “governance by git” but a very cool step in that direction. Pretty sure it’s one of Audrey Tang’s projects [2]. She’s a member of the cabinet who is also an all-around hacker. [1] https://congress.crowd.law/case-vtaiwan.html https://congress.crowd.law/case-vtaiwan.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang

allenleein 6y ago

Very interesting. How about upgrade knowledge to git? People iterate knowledge together in a git-based knowledge base network. Upload your own knowledge base, wiki to the network. Push/pull -> new thoughts, breakthroughs... Merge -> different knowledge branch Then build a search engine on top of it.

Balgair 6y ago
Jesus, that would make research papers easier. Historiography via pull requests and push comments? Yes!

rajacombinator 6y ago

git blame would be a fun one here. of course, they’d never let you see the real commit history.

TacoSteemers 6y ago

You might enjoy this article. "How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request Washington DC has made GitHub the authoritative digital source for DC laws." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-the-law-with-a-github-pull-request/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-th...

mrblues 6y ago

Financial laws like employment and taxes should be formalized in code as much as possible.