Re:We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (2006)
by piokuc on Thursday May 22, 2014 @04:46AM
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> Basically, you need a better politician, but the selection pressures for best politician are somewhat self defeating.
> Either you build one as an AI or you build one out of multitude of people.
AI is not the only possible way to mitigate the problem, here is another one:
"Best way to pick legislators? At random. " http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/best-way-t...
Basically, you need a better politician, but the selection pressures for best politician are somewhat self defeating.
Either you build one as an AI or you build one out of multitude of people.
At the moment, I think the second is more likely. I guess a detailed examination of competency of people to make decision should be made and based on that a new governmental structure should be made.
There might be things that majority wouldn't be able to make good progressive decisions. For example - the LGBT rights are usually against the will of the majority.