<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Dec 19, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Flexman, Connor <<a href="mailto:connor_flexman@brown.edu">connor_flexman@brown.edu</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Jason Resch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jasonresch@gmail.com" target="_blank">jasonresch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Check out Liquid Democracy, now used at Google:<div><a href="http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series" target="_blank">http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series</a><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>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.) <br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><div>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.</div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>