[ExI] Fail to the chief?

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Dec 19, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Flexman, Connor <connor_flexman at brown.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Check out Liquid Democracy, now used at Google:
>>> http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series
>> 
>> Good luck refining it into something most people will be able to understand enough to trust.  (Not a sarcastic comment: that really is a large problem getting this system deployed on more than niche electorates.)
> 
> Perhaps if more companies begin using it like Google does, or we roll it out in very sub-national realms, people will slowly become comfortable with it? It looks promising enough that it might be worth pushing for on a smaller scale, to see how far people can take it before insurmountable problems show up.

Yes, many things can be tried on a smaller or local scale that provide insight and experience plus show more people that the world won't fall into the Sun if something like sortition, etc. is tried on a larger scale.

Regards,

Dan
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