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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 May 2018
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    What if everybody in the world could vote in any country's elections, with an exponentially decaying weight set by shortest distance from boundary? So Chinese people would have say a 1/32 vote in American elections? Fourier transform global politics.

    6:34 PM - 22 May 2018
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      2. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 23 May 2018
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        *Laplace transform

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      3. Jim Kakalios‏ @JimKakalios 23 May 2018
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        Brian, that's called "Mathsplaining" !

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 May 2018
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        Yeah I remember that

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      2. Sajith Pai‏ @sajithpai 22 May 2018
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        Interesting! What if treasury bond holders could vote!

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 May 2018
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        Arguably they already do, by controlling monetary policy. It's the people with no such existing representation in domestic policy who I am interested in enfranchising.

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      2. "Paul Gowder." Mixed media. 2020.‏ @PaulGowder 22 May 2018
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        China and India would just get to annex Monaco and Estonia for free

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 May 2018
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        We'd rig the equations appropriately or something to preserve certain structural integrity constraints.

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      2. Andrei Savu‏ @andreisavu 22 May 2018
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        what would be the meaning of distance in this context? what's the alternative?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 May 2018
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        Proxy for likely stake, though an imperfect one. Atmospheric pollution is a simple example of local political decisions causing global externalities tht decay with distance.

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      2. Dorian Taylor‏ @doriantaylor 22 May 2018
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        i remember thinking of a nation-state as an interface between a set of rules and a (potentially non-contiguous) geographical territory

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 May 2018
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        Sovereignty is a really toxic idea for both humans and nations, so we end up mitigating their effects with containment boundaries, but explicit interdependence mechanisms would be better.

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