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    1. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      this isn't an argument as to whether the object-level aim of the EO is bad or good, just what it says about the mechanisms of state

      2 replies 3 retweets 14 likes
    2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      arbitrariness breeds distrust, granting individual discretion to low-level functionaries breeds corruption

      2 replies 24 retweets 47 likes
    3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      the mark of a healthy (mature--emerging is a different story) state is one that can be relied on to do what it says, to uphold its bargains

      2 replies 8 retweets 31 likes
    4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      it should be predictable to foster stability. otherwise people start hedging in ways that would otherwise be pathological

      1 reply 2 retweets 20 likes
    5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      the fundamental trade-off with bureaucracy is procedure (inflexible but predictable) vs. judgement (flexible but uncertain)

      1 reply 8 retweets 21 likes
    6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      (this, incidentally, is what makes judges special, and why things like mandatory sentencing and such operate at cross-purposes: we...

      1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes
    7. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      ...*specifically* empower them to render judgement and have entire cultures built around the fact of the gravity of their decisions)

      1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
    8. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
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      the ideal of bureaucracy is to excise individual discretion completely, to have a pure system immune to bribery (because why would you...

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    9. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
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      ...bribe them if they can't do anything for you), one where people get exactly what they should expect our based on what they put in

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    10. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      it's an ideal of course, bureaucracies fail spectacularly on special cases, which causes them to add more procedure as they encounter them

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
      Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017

      so they can appear uncaring (because they are) and bloat to monstrous sizes absent constant aggressive refactoring

      3:03 PM - 28 Jan 2017
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        2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          I would not call USG a healthy state (though it's far from african dictatorship levels let's be real), and making it into one would be a...

          1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
        3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          ...massive undertaking. but if one were to attempt, approach I'd take is: scope down globally but up locally, simplify, and be *reliable*

          3 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
        4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          and accelerationists should be cheering right now, this is the sort of stuff that gets people looking for increasingly unusual alternatives

          0 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
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