Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-13 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - I understand that... though it IS my habit to acknowledge the things I agree on to more starkly expose the ones I don't (or at least I try to do that). With a happy side-effect that more people will like you as a result. One day, I'll wish I had spent more effort with the soft

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-13 Thread Marcus Daniels
The late Christopher Hitchens, five years ago: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2011/09/simply_evil.html << I take this as a part vindication of the superiority of "our" civilization, which is at least so constituted as to be able to learn from past mistakes,

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-13 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Take a look: emergentdiplomacy.org, click on ECOS. I'd especially love your feedback. I've been thinking about this since my TEDx talk a few years ago, and now we're making it happen. I'm a recent revolutionary since growing inequality, climate change, and forever war are our biggest global

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-13 Thread Pamela McCorduck
Merle, I posted so long ago I forget what I said. I’m not a revolutionary, never was. I don’t like most revolutions since 1776. But I’m surely open to new ways of approaching the problem. > On Sep 13, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > > Pamela, the present

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-13 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Pamela, the present structures cannot be "reformed." We need a revolution that allows new structures to emerge. Visit our website and read about the ECOS gathering. On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > I found that article on Enough with this Basic Income

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-13 Thread glen ☣
More election system fodder. I love how both headlines imply (all) democracy(ies) is broken. Reminds me of the old aphorism: better is the enemy of adequate. Can “sortition” sort out the problem of political ignorance?