<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Thursday, March 5, 2015 9:19 AM Anders Sandberg <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cesar Garcia Saez<<a href="mailto:cesargarciasaez@gmail.com" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">cesargarciasaez@gmail.com</a>> , <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">5/3/2015 4:32 PM</a>:</span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've been wondering for a long time for an approach similar<br></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to the Partido Azar, or Random Party. Their proposal is that<br></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the best representation of society is not professional<br></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">politicians, but a random selection of people, than has to<br></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">work as politicians for a mandate and then can't be re-elected<br></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">again.>></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The random selection process is always the tricky part of the<br></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">discussion but there might be means to get it right.></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This approach is typically called demarchy, a form of governance<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">based on sortition.</span></font></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>Sigmund Knag wrote a decent essay on sortition a few years ago that might prove helpful. See:<br><br><a href="http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_03_2_knag.pdf" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_03_2_knag.pdf</a><br><br>(Start with page two. The first page is an ad.:/)<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Dan</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);"><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> See my latest Kindle book at: </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fruiting-Bodies-Nanovirus-Book-2-ebook/dp/B00U1UCN9A/">http://www.amazon.com/Fruiting-Bodies-Nanovirus-Book-2-ebook/dp/B00U1UCN9A/</a></div></div></div></div></body></html>