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Ask HN: Design a government from scratch, how would it look?

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Re: Ask HN: Design a government from scratch, how would it look?

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As much as there's ways that computing could be (and is unevenly) used to increase retail-level government, there are good reasons to continue to include human beings in the governing process. A few notions to look into: * Condorcet voting systems * Mechanism Design Theory * Parliamentary systems Finally, consider strongly the problem of the influence of capital on any system. In the US, there's the issue of campaign…

You could make the development process completely transparent, with input from a wide variety of people, checks and balances etc. and not begin implementing it without plenty of debate, examination etc. The bias is that those who are most interested in the process and/or the most vocal could end up being those with the most influence. But there's no reason not to at least start examining the problem from many angles…

Believe it or not, that's the premise of a republican democracy. There's just more prose and less code involved.

Re: Ask HN: Design a government from scratch, how would it look?

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I'd want the reset button to be hit every 100 years.

The thing is, existing politics has analogies for all the programming-inspired ideas that come up here. To wit: fomenting revolution. If you want to tear it all down and start from scratch, rise up and overturn the standing government by force of arms.

Too hard? They have all the good weapons? Then you don't care enough, and that's the check on reseting the government.

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