from Diary 2024-01-20 information-gathering tools for happy governance.
nishio Today’s event helped me to understand the language a little better. The difficulty level of the “if the same input is given” part depends on the problem to be solved. The “translate the given sentence” is an easy problem. The “Make governing people happiness” is a difficult problem.
nishio To solve this problem, we need to collect information on “what state of mind, what experiences, and what feelings each of a large number of people had. In collecting this information, the means of collection, “writing the name of a politician on a piece of paper and putting it in a box,” is too narrow bandwidth. A better way to collect information is needed. - Elections are slow communications, sending 5 bits every four years.
nishio Incidentally, the “AI that receives input and makes decisions” part is also currently using a poor algorithm that in many cases “selects one choice per person and decides on the one chosen by the most people.” This is a poor algorithm. One of the goals of mechanism design is to replace this with something better, and Quadratic Voting is a successful example.
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