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We, humanity, have literally ALREADY TRIED THIS. This isn't some kind of super hypothetical what-if scenario. We have historical records. It went poorly.
by wredcoll 1y ago
We, humanity, have literally ALREADY TRIED THIS.
This isn't some kind of super hypothetical what-if scenario. We have historical records.
It went poorly.
- hammock 1y agoWe tried the random thing?
- TheCoelacanth 1y agoIt's not unheard of[1]. Ancient Athens used random selection for many offices and some Italian city-states like Venice and Florence incorporated elements of randomness. A lot of historians think that it did help a lot in reigning in corruption and making it harder for foreign powers to influence their politics. I think randomly selecting a president is probably a bad idea but randomly selecting a parliament and then having them elect a prime minister from within that group would work well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition