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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