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  • Because the Internet has done so well at solving all our social problems.

  • Because current form of democracy has done so well at solving all our social problems.

  • There’s several suggestions for making use of the tech. One that springs to mind is replacing or complementing human representatives with algorithms. Sounds bizarre but so is thinking a single human or a even a few thousand humans are able to identify which policy decisions are most beneficial for tens of millions of people.

    Advertisers and bankers in the west already have online profiles for us, detailing our preferences and habits, our network connections, and myriad other pieces of info to give them a view into our minds, and to predict our preferences. Why not harness this tech to inform policy decisions?

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