Ask HN: Isnt Politics the most easiest field to be replaced with AI?
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#3So I'll go with "No, politics is complex and hard".
Re: Ask HN: Isnt Politics the most easiest field to be replaced with AI?
#4For example, consider homelessness. No one has any clue what, if anything, is the best solution, because there are tradeoffs of values.
One possible solution (these are examples, if your personal pet solution is not included or is misrepresented, I apologize) is you ignore the homeless and just let them be, and allow individual communities and cities to address charity and enforcement. Another is for states to house all non-mentally ill homeless for free, for, say, a year, and, in mental health instutitions, house the repeat homeless, the mentally ill homeless, and those that after some period of time cannot or will not find work.
AI can help you diagnose the problem, and make predictions about it, but those two solutions above have VERY different outcomes, have very different pricetags, and accomplish very different goals. An AI can’t think about the high level moral tradeoffs of questions like “is 100% getting homeless off the streets worth a fraction of the population being held at significant cost to taxpayers and against its own will?”
Somebody, at the end of the day, must decide which, if either, of those plans people will use, and that somebody is a politician you elect. AI is not going to replace that.
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#5Isn't government all about asking one yes or no question and collecting a response from every citizen and going forward with the majority answer.
Isn't scenarios where we go ahead with minority decisions where the issues arise?
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#6Should i have better phrased it by replacing politics with government. Isn't government all about asking one yes or no question and collecting a response from every citizen and going forward with the majority answer. Isn't scenarios where we go ahead with minority decisions where the issues arise?
But is that a good idea?
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#7The final thing I’ll say is that government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with.
So sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start telling me about leadership, and here’s how we do things. And I say, well, if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences -- setting aside my Syria and Yemen portfolio -- then I think those suggestions are terrific. (Laughter and applause.) That's not, by the way, to say that there aren't huge efficiencies and improvements that have to be made.
But the reason I say this is sometimes we get, I think, in the scientific community, the tech community, the entrepreneurial community, the sense of we just have to blow up the system, or create this parallel society and culture because government is inherently wrecked. No, it's not inherently wrecked; it's just government has to care for, for example, veterans who come home. That's not on your balance sheet, that's on our collective balance sheet, because we have a sacred duty to take care of those veterans. And that's hard and it's messy, and we're building up legacy systems that we can't just blow up.
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#8I think Obama said it best: The final thing I’ll say is that government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with. So sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start tellin…
For example, the BART extension to south Fremont cost around $150 million per mile and took 3 years longer than planned. CA can't seem to maintain roads, and when it does it costs bazillions of dollars.
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#9Should i have better phrased it by replacing politics with government. Isn't government all about asking one yes or no question and collecting a response from every citizen and going forward with the majority answer. Isn't scenarios where we go ahead with minority decisions where the issues arise?
Probably don’t even need AI to implement a brute force direct democracy: just make a website where anyone can make issues to vote over, and a voting mechanism. But is that a good idea?
But the current crap in crap out system has no hope.
Is the current system a good idea?
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#10An AI will try to achieve its goals by any means. I believe it coud be useful as a helper, assistant, etc.
Anyway no politician would allow to loose powers because a machine took his/her job...