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AMA | December 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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How a Diet Lottery Could Improve the Tone of Politics

A modified version of diet lottery voting would have 100 citizens vote in a plurality election. The idea is similar to Sortician, when you randomly select people to hammer out an issue and they come up with a compromise. It could improve the tone of politics because it would be a waste of time for a candidate to rally her base or get out the vote under such a system.

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