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What's the line about paleolithic brains, medieval institutions, and sci-fi technology? There's probably a use for AI in government. You can imagine the abilit
by coffeefirst 2y ago
What's the line about paleolithic brains, medieval institutions, and sci-fi technology?
There's probably a use for AI in government. You can imagine the ability for a city council to ask constituents "we're hearing about this, share your experience" and break down 100,000 responses rather than just the 10 people that show up to a meeting for their 2 minutes. I can also imagine automations speeding up passport renewals. Red-teaming legislation for ambiguity isn't a bad idea.
But that's not our problem.
We don't need more software. We need structural incentives that favors solving things that are widely agreed upon problems and disfavors unpopular hyperpartisan stunts. We have the opposite.
- rayiner 2y ago> We need structural incentives that favors solving things that are widely agreed upon problems and disfavors unpopular hyperpartisan stunts. Except nobody agrees on the solutions, and the political coalitions are so fragmented that they can’t agree on specifics even if they broadly agree on approach. Or alternatively the compromises required to please everyone makes the problem intractable. (See, e.g., California HSR.)