It bothers me that the options for office are untrustworthy career politicians who lie and corrupt their position or naive single issue ideologues who understand too little and expect too much. I kind of wish politics was boring. Just vote for the boring candidates who know how to do their job and are happy with an average salary. Bureaucrats, but competent ones.
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Politicians are mainly meddling chumps. Like new managers constantly ordering sweeping changes but hardly aware of how things are implemented on the ground.
Inventing feel good stats which are juked.
The old BBC series Yes, Minister is the most realistic depiction of politics.
Blind trust of authority is all too commonplace; the default should be mistrust of those who wield power.
They actually don't, as very few MPs have the necessary legal qualifications. So staff, writes it. It isn't uncommon for legislators to be unable to grasp details of the things they propose.
Unfortunately lobbyists write much of the legislation these days.
Otherwise legal and permanent secretaries ( civil servants ) draft laws and parliaments ( congress ) debate and amend them.
I conceed the executive branch does propose the policy and ideas on which they are based.
I am all for legislatures ( parliaments ) and elected representatives but the executive ( govt. ) seems to increasingly be at odds with the citizenry and serve those who fund their election or pad their retirements with directorships.
Sure have govt. just much less of it - there are far too many laws and far too many bad laws.
Fewer better, well considered laws, informed by public debate.
Really watch a couple of episodes of Yes Minister, that shows how it works not how they say it works.
I think AI politicians or complex algorithms just risk being a more complicated form of legalese that even less people can understand (legalese in code/math form). With law in code form like that, you need to demand much more of the education system (scary!) to allow people to vote on PRs, if you even do that democratically. Otherwise, even more faith is put in the hands of the designers/core-maintainers as representatives, much like we already have. More ways to obfuscate direct effects and hide side-effects.
I truly think there is something there though, something from the open-source process that can make government more efficient and productive, but it's probably not in the way we are thinking. It probably looks less like software maintenance and more like science, dare I say political science. Crowd-source solutions and organize experiments across counties and states in a way that's data driven, not politics and need-for-reelection driven.
