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Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant, but sometimes I tweet about them anyway.

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    1. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 18 Nov 2017

      A good size for a federal legislature would be 9 senators, around the maximum standard size that the board of a nonprofit might use. It's absurd to think that you can find 535 good directors for a board. Imagine if the Supreme Court had 535 judges.

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    2. joshrivers‏ @joshrivers 18 Nov 2017
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky

      I feel like the deliberative chokepoint is less of an issue than inadequate full-time, competent advocates for divergent perspectives and needs. I want more representation, not consolidation.

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 18 Nov 2017
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      Then perhaps you need a separate elected body of government for advocates within the bureaucracy ("constituent service"). 535 legislators gets you chaos and star chambers, not diversity.

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        2. joshrivers‏ @joshrivers 18 Nov 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          Reasonable, especially if such advocates were empowered to research, develop, propose, and promote policy proposals. We lack policies that are not self-funding (profitable and capitalizable).

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        3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 18 Nov 2017
          Replying to @joshrivers

          Keep in mind that the current equilibrium is two giant pre-packaged positions, which no individual legislator has the power to defy, and that doesn't include a voice for e.g decriminalizing marijuana. Better nine viewpoints than two.

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        4. joshrivers‏ @joshrivers 18 Nov 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          Is the number of distinct positions/factions simply an inverse function of body size? Or do we have external or structural forces that reduce us to two factions?

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        5. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 18 Nov 2017
          Replying to @joshrivers

          We currently have a legislature so large that it reduces to an amorphous blob with two faces. No one person we can vote out of office appears to do anything. "Congress" does it.

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        6. joshcryer‏ @joshcryer 18 Nov 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @joshrivers

          First past the post voting results in the two party fringe system we have now, approval voting (or any cardinal voting system) would make the entire system be purple and there would be no real parties anymore. But your blob would still be inefficient.

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        7. joshrivers‏ @joshrivers 18 Nov 2017
          Replying to @joshcryer @ESYudkowsky

          👍👍 on approval voting, but it doesn’t solve for voters inability to connect issues, policies, results, and politician accountability. I like @ESYudkowsky’s elected bureaucracy, perhaps we could use them to give report cards on policymakers, providing professional accountability

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