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Yep, I'm excited to see how AI can transform the math research workflow!
Wow, I was already impressed with the new comment feature on erdosproblems.com and how it's already been used to solve some of the problems. Excited to see if AI can make a meaningful contribution here.
Re:You want ugly voting districts [video] on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:26PM (#37007185)
So you're cool having a party with 49% of the vote but none of the seats? Is that representative democracy?
The Supreme Court has already stated that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, we just don't have a mechanism to systematically detect it after the fact. That's why it's so hard to fight in the courts. If possible, I think it's a good idea to prevent unconstitutional gerrymandering, even if it doesn't solve all of our problems.
What is more likely, a change to federal law, or the existence of one of 50 states that changes state law?
A switch to PR would require a change to federal law. Meanwhile, in the absence of PR, any state is free to adopt its own redistricting policy. The latter approach seems much more feasible.

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