A pillar of Athenian democracy was sortition: selecting officials at random among a large pool of valid candidates. It can be very effective at preventing tribalism and corruption.
The law/code parallel is deeply flawed, and leads endless programmers astray. Legislators have access to legal specialists and legislative aides, but the rules we live by should not be written by a specialist caste, but by people with broader life experience (including lawyers)
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Even if you hold to the law/code parallel, consider how many problems in the way software interacts with the world are the result of having programmers make the key decisions in products that broadly affect society
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Note that your argument would also hold even more strongly for jury service, and yet we choose juries from a broad cross-section of society, not just those with legal training. The Athenians were right and you are wrong on this one!
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