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by forapurpose
2800 days ago
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> we are hopeless at determining who is trustworthy and who isn’t We are not at all hopeless. We're not perfect, but we do pretty well. Just because people make mistakes sometimes doesn't at all mean that everyone is hopeless. Bad software is written, but we can produce good software. People trust the wrong person, but democracy and human rights has blossomed and spread. Your proposals about politicians are interesting in that Trump likely wouldn't agree to facing the consequences of his actions. |
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Great example! How do we make our political system more robust like software dev?
Even good software developers make plenty of mistakes and the system overall manages to keep trucking on.
It’s because we have a whole host of techniques to limit our losses - for example at work we have systems in place to automatically roll back recent changes if we detect a problem.
We could apply this technique to legislation by putting in a set of conditions under which the legislation would be automatically revoked.
> Your proposals about politicians are interesting in that Trump likely wouldn't agree to facing the consequences of his actions.
It is not just politicians - we all have an aversion to taking responsibility for our actions and beliefs.