top | item 46437133

(no title)

boroboro4 | 2 months ago

Would you rather be treated (medically) by the first 2000 people? Do you think code will be written better by the first 2000? I get being unhappy about current political class, but this kind of claims is wild to me.

discuss

order

hackeraccount|2 months ago

Politicians aren't making technical choices. They make value judgments.

Not it's raining should I wear galoshes but, should I wear blue or red pants? Not should I buy a sports car or an SUV but do I want to do the things you can do with a sports car or the things you can do with an SUV?

It can get confusing because experts can help inform value judgments but they don't have anymore weight on making them then any other person.

When it comes to those choices having a random selection of a large group instead of a small selection of a group of "experts" is at least an arguable point of view.

delichon|2 months ago

I have confidence in the US electoral system to select representatives of more than usual charisma, but not competence or integrity.

boroboro4|2 months ago

In my opinion even charisma implies higher than average intellect which is already something.

We should put more pressure on elected politicians around competence and integrity, sure, but it doesn’t mean random person is going to be better.

In the original comparison second category of people have much higher intellect than average.