Political discourse is off-limits on Hacker News * *Except when Sam Altman feels like talking about it
That's not really fair. There's lots of political discourse on HN.
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#12Political discourse is off-limits on Hacker News * *Except when Sam Altman feels like talking about it
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#13He should apply the Y combinator business model: $120k twice per year in exchange for influence over 7% of candidate's congressional voting decisions. /s
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#14Political discourse is off-limits on Hacker News * *Except when Sam Altman feels like talking about it
That's not really fair. There's lots of political discourse on HN.
In my experience political posts get [Dead]ed pretty fast, but this guy's articles always stay at the top for hours because of his association with HN/YC.
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#15He should apply the Y combinator business model: $120k twice per year in exchange for influence over 7% of candidate's congressional voting decisions. /s
(He is, even though it is unintentional.)
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#16How many people here can name their state senator or representative?
Of the hundreds of people who might read this, I'm sure only a small handful could do it without looking it up. It's a serious problem that people don't follow state politics at all, and it's not a problem with the people themselves. We need a system that doesn't require people to follow what their president, senator, congressman, governor, state senator, mayor, and city councilman, along with dozens of other elected officials, are doing while in office.
If you're going to promote change, don't just promote a change in who we elect, because there's a Nash equilibrium that leads them to behave as all politicians have. Promote a change in HOW we elect them. Change the rules of the game and a different game will be played.
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#17Political discourse is off-limits on Hacker News * *Except when Sam Altman feels like talking about it
That's not really fair. There's lots of political discourse on HN.
I see mods getting after people about it when they're not expressing the generally accepted view around here too, though.
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#18Cool. I wonder where Altman stands on Citizens United and the aftermath that is super PACs. A big problem to me is how to keep money out of politics wherever possible. I guess this would fall under his "fair government" policy, although I don't see it explicitly mentioned. Do libertarians support having super PACs? That would be yikes to me. Unless that is a primary issue for a candidate, I don't see how we'll ever g…
To be contrarian for a second, perhaps there isn't enough money in politics? Look how much candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were able to raise directly from constituents, despite being snubbed by big money. What if we give more direct democratic funding tools to the public, like vouchers, to counteract corporate interests, other special interest groups, and the rich? Restricting political expenditure seems like a fundamental violation of free speech, but getting more public money into politics to counteract concentrated interests seems like a completely viable solution?
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#19The structural problems of American democracy are because candidates are unaccountable outside (except to their donors) outside a small election window, where they temporarily perform whatever act will allowed them to attain or hold onto power. If Altman is sincere about wanting better candidates, I'd suggest pushing for technology-driven direct democracy, candidates who, in real time, act and respond to feedback fro…
There was basically an episode of Black Mirror about this
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yikes, how does creating another super PAC achieve fair government?
It's not really about fair government. Just different government. I don't think government will ever be fair, but at least ours can be changed.
Fair government is one of the policy goals on Altman's page.