I agree it would be great if we could do that. I just don't see how we'll get over the intense partisanship in the US
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Replying to @elneurozorro @khinsen
Yeah, I know. But every little helps I suppose.
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Not all ideas have to be totally realistic to still be important and worth publicizing. Nice work!
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Replying to @elneurozorro @khinsen
Anything to shift that Overton window, I guess.
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But — to be fair to
@ProfData and I and the preprint, we're saying that gerrymandering/non-optimal districting is inevitable if done by humans. Ergo it should be done by machines. They make the maps. Then the debate is about which algorithmic criteria the machines should use.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @o_guest @elneurozorro and
The crux of our point, that humans are inherently unable to draw maps even if they intend to make unbiased districts is not inherently unrealistic given Mexico does use computational redistricting and does debate the maps the machines create and then selects which to make real.
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Replying to @o_guest @elneurozorro and
That is a big sentence. Sorry to make you all parse it.
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Replying to @o_guest @elneurozorro and
Also super props to Mexico for being so cool [in many ways of course not just for computationally redistricting].

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Yeah every once in a while theres something to be proud about haha. Usually theres very little on the politics front, at least. Haha.
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Replying to @elneurozorro @o_guest and
Off topic: I got pretty depressed on Mexico watching a documentary on Acapulco last night. I used to go there for vacation as a kid and now its the 2nd most dangerous city in the WORLD.
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Woah.
What's the first?
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Caracas.
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