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I wish there were more of a science to implementing regulations. We might all agree that X is desirable, but there are tons of ways of trying to achieve X, and
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
I wish there were more of a science to implementing regulations. We might all agree that X is desirable, but there are tons of ways of trying to achieve X, and finding a good one doesn't seem to happen that often. Debate about it turns into accusations that because you don't like how the X regulation was implemented, you must be against X, therefore you must be evil scum. Systems get written in stone and duct taped together in a forever additive way. Nothing gets AB tested. Nothing gets refactored.
- floatrock 5y agoWith a unit test, you hit Run and it's either Red or Green. With a constituency, there is no such universal agreement on what is desirable. Politics is the messy, ambiguous, and incomplete process of deciding which X is most desirable.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoThere’s not agreement on what’s desirable, but there’s agreement of what the goals of a piece of legislation are. Often, those goals area measurable. The scale of experimentation that would be required to scientifically test whether legislation does what it’s supposed to do would be massive, but I’d bet it would be worthwhile.
- bluGill 5y agoSure, but the problem is there are unintended consequences that you don't even think of until after passing the law. Sure you can measure metrics, but only the metrics you know to measure, not ones that you didn't think of.