This is pretty late in the cycle for O'Reilly to not realize that the adaptive 'algorithmic government' he is describing would result in government optimized fo

This is pretty late in the cycle for O'Reilly to not realize that the adaptive 'algorithmic government' he is describing would result in government optimized for clicks and highly responsive to weaponized performative umbrage by groups acting in bad faith. Which is, of course, exactly what we have. Maybe we need something stable that can maintain a functional equilibrium and act in the defence of the norms of the whole system. Responsiveness and stability are usually antithetical, and systems designed to be responsive to the immediate urges of large masses of humanity are rarely anything but monstrous.