I generally a fan of posts that just do lots of object-level exploration of the world – it feels like an underserved market on LessWrong. And in this case, I think the topic is fairly important. I’m found myself pleasantly surprised how fast the Swiss Political System went from not-even-being-on-my-radar, to seeming potentially like a really important case study.
The topic of “how to avoid political polarization” seems important. As of now, I’m not sure the Swiss system is all that informative (it’s just one country, it’s not clear which variables feed into the lack of polarization, and the system seems somewhat costly). But I think it’s useful to wade through at least a few case studies.
I think of “how to do good large scale coordination” as one of the major questions LW has come to focus on in the past few years, and this seems like an important contribution to that, grounding out some of the more theoretical posts on game theory.
Curated.
I generally a fan of posts that just do lots of object-level exploration of the world – it feels like an underserved market on LessWrong. And in this case, I think the topic is fairly important. I’m found myself pleasantly surprised how fast the Swiss Political System went from not-even-being-on-my-radar, to seeming potentially like a really important case study.
The topic of “how to avoid political polarization” seems important. As of now, I’m not sure the Swiss system is all that informative (it’s just one country, it’s not clear which variables feed into the lack of polarization, and the system seems somewhat costly). But I think it’s useful to wade through at least a few case studies.
I think of “how to do good large scale coordination” as one of the major questions LW has come to focus on in the past few years, and this seems like an important contribution to that, grounding out some of the more theoretical posts on game theory.