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paul-melman.bsky.social
I dream of a world where the left wants rule by a distributed network of citizens assemblies and the right wants rule by a technocratic doge https://www.electionbyjury.org/
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If protest movements want to be successful, they need to have their own squads to beat up the rioters and looters before the cops get involved

I knew this allegory was gonna make sense eventually

I think both ICE and the rioters are bad

You know, a bunch of smart people should actually patent the Torment Nexus so no one else has the rights to build it for 20 years.

Rationalists love psychedelics because they make them stop being rationalist for a bit

there's definitely a gen zalpha tbh. the rate of cultural change has accelerated to the point where 20 years or so is too coarse to understand cultural generations

IT'S BLUE WEDNESDAY!!!

everyone shut up, the neoliberal jihad is happening in syria

I was at a political networking event recently and the conversation turned to AI. A guy asked me my AGI timeline, and I said probably by the early 2030s. He then asked a reasonable question: "If your AGI timeline is so short, why are you working on sortition?" unfacts.substack.com/p/if-my-agi-...

journals with low impact scores are basically secret tomes when u think about it

dropped this on someone in discord the other day lol

My first post on the official @assembleamerica.org blog is about how sortition can inject local knowledge into policymaking without the need for heavy-handed legibility-increasing tactics typically employed by governments. assemblingamerica.substack.com/p/seeing-the...