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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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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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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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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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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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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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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