⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

how these systems might be redesigned with the opposite intention of “bridging” the crowd.

The process involved many steps (proposal, opinion expression, reflection, and legislation) each harnessing a range of open source software tools, but has become best known for its use of the at-the-time(2015)-novel machine learning based open-source “wikisurvey”/social media tool Polis,

we form far deeper attention in common action and experience than in verbal exchange.

Both threats strike at the heart of democracy, which, as Alexis de Tocqueville famously highlighted in Democracy in America, depends on deep and diverse, non-market, decentralized social and civil connections to thrive

roughly half of the population over its lifetime and an average of 11,000 unique daily visitors.

proposed having owners self-assess the value of their property under penalty of having to sell at this self-assessed value.[447]

The "Talk to the City" project of the AI Objectives Institute, for example, illustrates how GFMs can be used to replace a list of statements characterizing a group's views with an interactive agent one can talk to and get a sense of the perspective.

In ranked choice systems, participants rank several alternatives, and the decision depends on this full list in some way.

Yet they have largely been unmatched by the emergence of appropriate labor market institutions (such as unions and labor regulations) that allow workers to share the potential benefits of these arrangements. Thus, they have tended to raise workplace precarity and contribute to the “hollowing-out” of the middle class in many developed countries[7].