It feels like a simple yet brilliant idea, that has almost entirely disappeared from modern Western democracies (with the notable exception of jury duty).
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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.
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Imagine a country where the Senate is composed of 100 random people, serving for one year, selected among all citizen between 30 and 60 who have a law degree.
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The more randomness in your system, the less vulnerable it will be to attacks (reaching and maintaining power through bribes, propaganda, etc). Democracy design needs more security awareness
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But who gets to define “valid candidates” considering the hyper partisan atmosphere in US?
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Lot of things that would have been considered disqualifying just two years ago are now considered “smart” or acceptable “locker talk”!
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At first it started with bubble sortition... And shell sortition. Eventually quick sortition proved to be so quick no one really tried to optimize it anymore and it fell from memory. I think politicians should have to solve problems on a whiteboard with the country watching
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这个想法大赞，在选举中引入随机性，可大大降低腐败及宣传效用。Google 的人智商高知识渊博不仅仅体现在技术上。
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How do you define who is a qualified people? By vote? By examination? Who gets to define how is people examined? How are they nominated? What is the recourse in case these qualified people make a mistake that jeopardize the life condition of million other citizens?
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Socrates had little respect for Athenian democracy and found sortition to be utter folly.
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