On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:36 PM, glen <g...@ropella.name> wrote: > > But, again, hyper-focus on how we vote is probably no better than > hyper-focus on how campaigns are funded. If only there were some way we > could compose multiple mechanisms into some magic machine and, oh I don't > know, run it forward to see how it all works out, then compare that machine > to data taken from the world and tweak the machine until it seems to work, > then base our predictions off that machine. [sigh] Sounds like science > fiction to me!
Sound like history to me. Although there are a few things about our current situation that are unique enough to make it hard to draw comparisons. -Arlo James Barnes
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