A lot of people have been hoping for software systems like these, for decades. I have no doubt that EA can oversee/fund extreme improvements on all sorts of existing systems and designs, and that reinventing the wheel might be necessary whenever existing systems are inaccessible and thus must be reinvented.
The post is very much about reinventing the wheel and that makes specifying a vision difficult because it is impossible to know what experimentation and invention will produce. -There are indeed a number of efforts to apply software to decision processes (or to improve voting). Some are good and have proven success. Most have not had great reach. The vision I intend to get across in the post is for a system that is accessible, provides the possibility of growth via feedback systems, and allows the best ideas to be promoted. I’ve seen academic work that investigates processes toward collective intelligence. The post attempts to make the point that it may be wise to move that to practice before state or corporate efforts contain the space and make something in the commons less possible.
A lot of people have been hoping for software systems like these, for decades. I have no doubt that EA can oversee/fund extreme improvements on all sorts of existing systems and designs, and that reinventing the wheel might be necessary whenever existing systems are inaccessible and thus must be reinvented.
The post is very much about reinventing the wheel and that makes specifying a vision difficult because it is impossible to know what experimentation and invention will produce. -There are indeed a number of efforts to apply software to decision processes (or to improve voting). Some are good and have proven success. Most have not had great reach. The vision I intend to get across in the post is for a system that is accessible, provides the possibility of growth via feedback systems, and allows the best ideas to be promoted. I’ve seen academic work that investigates processes toward collective intelligence. The post attempts to make the point that it may be wise to move that to practice before state or corporate efforts contain the space and make something in the commons less possible.