Totally agreed, that's why some sort of judiciary oversight is so important. But the important thing is that the cost function you optimize has to be "constitut

Totally agreed, that's why some sort of judiciary oversight is so important. But the important thing is that the cost function you optimize has to be "constitutionally" correct. Similar to the Census, more population gives your more House or Representative seats, etc. I would expect you can create something similar for other policies. E: And I also agree how today's problem should be able to be solved if policy makers wanted to. But if we went towards a data driven approach like the Census, these crooked policies should never been able to been in place to begin with.