You said a problem with representative democracy is that it ’ s a type of popularity contest and that can be easily manipulated . But do you think full automation is a good idea ? Or could you be swayed by an alternative system in which there is representative democracy but these representatives can use statistical inferences from these avatars as a guide , to which the politicians can use their real intelligence to the information and consider other related issues and actually generate the legislation themselves ?
In any system you have to have feedback , checks and balances . I ’ m not an advocate of full automation , on the contrary , I think it ’ s important that people participate in efforts like this , as a way to educate themselves . People learn as long as they participate and have oversight over what these algorithms do .
Today we think that , after we elect the politicians , we are in full automation as citizens . But after you cast your vote and the politician is in Parliament , they are able to do whatever they want in some way . They can vote however they like , and they will only be held accountable in the next election in four years . They will not be held accountable for one thing or another but rather some sort of combination of what they did and there will be a bunch of PR thrown at you to make you like them . And a bunch of negative PR their enemies will be throwing out too . You don ’ t even know if you ’ re voting for what the person did in Parliament or for the perception you have of them based on public relationships , media , scandals and whatnot . We already have full automation with no oversight . With technology , we could move into a world in which we have more oversight and more control . We could be correcting our algorithms every four years with better accuracy .
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