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by atoav 1502 days ago
My hobby is promoting random selection of things where other heuristics fail.

People cannot decide what to eat? Let's throw a dice, suddenly they know what they don't want to eat.

Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern.

If random choice seems better than your current system of selection, why not just go for it?

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> Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern.

I do really like the idea of a randomly selected "second house"

This is called sortition and would probably work okay. I’d prefer a system where we vote for every person who seems good enough and then randomly select from them.
Wilderness with randomness? Animals at each encounter flip a coin to decide who eats and who is eaten ?
> Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern.

I like this idea... just like jury are selected...

> People cannot decide what to eat? Let's throw a dice, suddenly they know what they don't want to eat.

The McDonald's Theory - https://jonbell.medium.com/mcdonalds-theory-9216e1c9da7d