News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak by prawn on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:22PM (#11435703)
I wonder how realistic AI politicians are?

Which set of algorithms do you want to vote for?

Re:Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak by brianclements on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @04:08AM (#11437388)
I think AI politicians or complex algorithms just risk being a more complicated form of legalese that even less people can understand (legalese in code/math form). With law in code form like that, you need to demand much more of the education system (scary!) to allow people to vote on PRs, if you even do that democratically. Otherwise, even more faith is put in the hands of the designers/core-maintainers as representatives, much like we already have. More ways to obfuscate direct effects and hide side-effects.

I truly think there is something there though, something from the open-source process that can make government more efficient and productive, but it's probably not in the way we are thinking. It probably looks less like software maintenance and more like science, dare I say political science. Crowd-source solutions and organize experiments across counties and states in a way that's data driven, not politics and need-for-reelection driven.

Re:Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak by eru on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @09:49PM (#11444040)
You imght like to learn about Futarchy: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html

No AI necessary.

Re:Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak by Rodeoclash on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:34PM (#11435753)
Just make a pull request with the law you want to implement or amend
Re:Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak by unexistance on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @02:54AM (#11437102)
another way to 'use' github I guess :D or plain git?