YC's request for startups: Government 2.0

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Post by simonebrunozzi » Thu, May 23, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

YC's request for startups: Government 2.0
blog.ycombinator.com

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Post by byoung2 » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:15 PM UTC

refreshed the Request for Startups

I didn't see the link in the article, but here is the list mentioned: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

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Post by hluska » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC

I find this very exciting - it strikes me that this field could create some tremendously valuable companies, whose impact upon society will be even more valuable than they are. Great work and best of luck to everyone involved in this general space!

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Post by gioele » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

If anybody is planning anything that combines laws, versioning/revision control and public access to legal resources, please get in touch with me. I have quite a bit of experience in that field that I'll be happy to share thoughts and talk shop.

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Post by Alex3917 » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:24 PM UTC

In Andrew Yang's recent panel at Monetery Tech Summit, he was making the case that most of these are problems that the free market doesn't reward solving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhNpbPhFwRc&t=957

These are all important problems, but there have been people working on them for decades already without much progress. What we really need is for either government to tackle these problems itself, or else to put in place market mechanisms that are able to better reward entrepreneurs for solving them.

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Post by bytematic » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

gioele wrote: post #4

If anybody is planning anything that combines laws, versioning/revision control and public access to legal resources, please get in touch with me. I have quite a bit of experience in that field that I'll be happy to share thoughts and talk shop.

I have been dreaming about a government system of laws that uses open source version control with a github-like ui, maybe even a constitution. If I had my own country, that's how I would do it.

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Post by dymk » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

bytematic wrote: post #6

gioele wrote: post #4

If anybody is planning anything that combines laws, versioning/revision control and public access to legal resources, please get in touch with me. I have quite a bit of experience in that field that I'll be happy to share thoughts and talk shop.

I have been dreaming about a government system of laws that uses open source version control with a github-like ui, maybe even a constitution. If I had my own country, that's how I would do it.

I think as long as we base the kernel of the Government on Rust (for a fearlessly concurrent Government), we'll be in the clear. Also protects against terrorist memory tampering.

Congress could submit new laws to Blockchain to combat tampering and ensure proof-of-work.

My startup is working on Artificial Intelligence to predict laws that model cities like San Francisco or New York would want to implement in the face of acute social woes, so if Government 2.0 could provide a RESTful Lobbying API, that'd let the People move fast.

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Post by YjSe2GMQ » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:35 PM UTC

I'm genuinely doubtful that people would want a tech-associated fund to try and mess around running the government. I mean tech doesn't get much of good press lately.

Not that I agree with that sentiment, but "something needs to be done with Facebook!" is one of the few things that both US parties seem to agree on.

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Post by scarejunba » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

dymk wrote: post #7

bytematic wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been dreaming about a government system of laws that uses open source version control with a github-like ui, maybe even a constitution. If I had my own country, that's how I would do it.

I think as long as we base the kernel of the Government on Rust (for a fearlessly concurrent Government), we'll be in the clear. Also protects against terrorist memory tampering. Congress could submit new laws to Blockchain to combat tampering and ensure proof-of-work. My startup is working on Artificial Intelligence to predict laws that model cities like San Francisco or New York would want to implement in the face…

Bit of an old joke, no? I think the "descent to the absurd" style here doesn't make sense because there is a concrete reason for what he's saying: lowering the barrier to suggesting changes in laws in a more structured form.

You could point to the diff and talk about it. Worthwhile, I think.

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Post by neom » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

gioele wrote: post #4

If anybody is planning anything that combines laws, versioning/revision control and public access to legal resources, please get in touch with me. I have quite a bit of experience in that field that I'll be happy to share thoughts and talk shop.

Please feel free to reach out! john@stae.co - We build a apigee/mulesoft/domo kinda data management utility for cities, a lot of our recent research has been on api driven compliance as a service.