@realcaseyrollins this is just a thought experiment, not a proposal. but resilient, credible randomness turns out to be surprisingly doable. you can mix multiple sources such that if any one source is not corrupt, the outcome is truly random even if all other sources are corrupt.
@inkican it’s a thought experiment, not advocacy. the subject of the experiment is the voting public, not the winner.
@LouisIngenthron only if the slot won.
@LouisIngenthron (obviously you’d need a credible, incorruptible, source of randomness, but that turns out to be a surprisingly tractable problem)
@kestral it’s made of people.
what if as a third party candidate we had “randomly selected eligible citizen” on the ballot?
would that beat RFK Jr etc? from which major party candidate would it pull more? might it win?
“This has been a key part of China’s success with building large-scale infrastructure. Multiple competent, well-resourced construction firms compete for contracts. If there are any issues, contractors can be swapped out relatively easily. And the parent SOEs help to maintain this balanced set of competitors, making sure that no single subsidiary gets too weak or too dominant.” #KyleChan https://www.high-capacity.com/p/managed-competition-in-chinas-state
@luis_in_brief @delong i devoted a couple of years to that stuff. https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7153.html
#JoeWeisenthal captures what makes me sad about the state of crypto. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-06-20/five-things-you-need-to-know-to-start-your-day-americas ht @delong
“If they were stand-alone companies, the three biggest P.B.M.s would each rank among the top 40 U.S. companies by revenue. The largest, Caremark, generates more revenue than Ford or Home Depot.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/business/prescription-drug-costs-pbm.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
// PBMs are a reaction to the monopoly power of drug companies, theoretically serve kind of as unions of drug buyers to exert bargaining power + secure lower prices. but they are not unions, they are for-profit firms. they collude not to trim the fat but to increase and share it.
it can be surprisingly hard sometimes not to be a dick, but it is good work to try.
“reaching full employment is a key first step, but you then need to use the leverage it provides to actually change the terms of working life in America.” #MaxMoran https://prospect.org/power/2024-06-20-capital-wont-love-you-back-mr-president/
@phillmv i, um, get a bit obsessive… 🙂
[new draft post] It isn't sprawl if it's dense. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/20/it-isnt-sprawl-if-its-dense/index.html
@shane we can be a sorry lot together!
[tech notebook] Sprouted https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/06/20/sprouted/index.html
@shane oh, i agree for sure. it's an observation of sentiment, my own, sometimes. not intended to be any kind of statement of fact or inevitability. i'm sorry if i framed it that way.
what they don't tell you is, the older you get, the nearer to the past you grow.
"Now hear me out, but What If...? browser development was in the hands of some kind of nonprofit organization?" @jwz https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozilla-is-an-advertising-company-now/
it’s not tinnitus you’re just hearing my cognitive dissonance.
the human condition could be a more humane condition.