"I, too, want a political party that talks to me—that asks for my input at the block, neighborhood, city, regional, state, and national level with at least occasional high touch contact"
Housing policy has made me exceptionally skeptical of going too far in this direction. When things are too local, you end up empowering NIMBYs. You really don't want to further empower "retired people with enough time to show up to all the meetings."
Public Reason: Bernstein and Farrell: These proposals are too indirect and time-costly. There is already a good system: you get people elected, and you pass enduring laws.
To get people elected, see Rahm Emanuel interviewed by Ezra Klein. Get Rahm back, to chair the DNC.
To pass enduring laws, change the intellectual zeitgeist of the electorate. We have been swallowed by free-market fundamentalism. Instead, inside everyone's head we need to place a general understanding of non-market (social) organization, alongside the market. Both market organization and non-market organization are necessary.
This will be much easier than it sounds. It can be accomplished in a dynamic illustration. See the playlist "New Addition to Economic Theory and Method" here:
Hmm. Expert systems failed because experts were unable to provide enough detail to fully explain their thinking or procedure. This is despite interviewers extracting the information from experts. Therefore I doubt that the RAG will work as well as one hopes using experts. It would probably be better than just extracting data from a corpus, but how much better? As for learning to listen and speak well, a human learns to do this with far less exposure to conversation. Perhaps we need a rethink just the speech part. Access to expert texts to learn and deliver knowledge should be effective, given the Allen Institute's findings.
Does Skocpol talk about the size of Congress not having increased along with population? Personally, I think this is part of the problem. Representation is thinning and getting progressively more expensive to attempt.
Nice map. I thought India would be strongly biased toward the west coast.
"I, too, want a political party that talks to me—that asks for my input at the block, neighborhood, city, regional, state, and national level with at least occasional high touch contact"
Housing policy has made me exceptionally skeptical of going too far in this direction. When things are too local, you end up empowering NIMBYs. You really don't want to further empower "retired people with enough time to show up to all the meetings."
Public Reason: Bernstein and Farrell: These proposals are too indirect and time-costly. There is already a good system: you get people elected, and you pass enduring laws.
To get people elected, see Rahm Emanuel interviewed by Ezra Klein. Get Rahm back, to chair the DNC.
To pass enduring laws, change the intellectual zeitgeist of the electorate. We have been swallowed by free-market fundamentalism. Instead, inside everyone's head we need to place a general understanding of non-market (social) organization, alongside the market. Both market organization and non-market organization are necessary.
This will be much easier than it sounds. It can be accomplished in a dynamic illustration. See the playlist "New Addition to Economic Theory and Method" here:
https://www.youtube.com/@ecolanguage
RE: MAMLMs and using experts.
Hmm. Expert systems failed because experts were unable to provide enough detail to fully explain their thinking or procedure. This is despite interviewers extracting the information from experts. Therefore I doubt that the RAG will work as well as one hopes using experts. It would probably be better than just extracting data from a corpus, but how much better? As for learning to listen and speak well, a human learns to do this with far less exposure to conversation. Perhaps we need a rethink just the speech part. Access to expert texts to learn and deliver knowledge should be effective, given the Allen Institute's findings.
Does Skocpol talk about the size of Congress not having increased along with population? Personally, I think this is part of the problem. Representation is thinning and getting progressively more expensive to attempt.