The Programmable Government

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8 pointslarrywright3 comments

Love this title - although the "APIs" are query only.

But a '''programmable government''', run by optimization algorithms? I like this - as long as it's open source. No politicians, just good code and bad code. No lobbyists, just competing, crowd-sourced algorithms.

Sounds too Utopian or too nightmarish?

The difference between Utopian and nightmarish, no matter what you're programming, is the ability to attach a debugger (or at the very least insert some print statements to reveal internal state).

> run by optimization algorithms

What is the evaluation function? How do we measure?

For example, we may agree that leaving houses empty is a bad idea and disagree as to whether we should leave them in the hands of folks who couldn't afford to buy them or to foreclose and sell them to people who were priced out of the market before.

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