What I took away from the soccer scoring scenario was that we have a tendency to overcomplicate things which don’t need to be complicated (like kicking a ball around for fun … or our tax code).
Also, I can empathize with the lady who gets kicked off the jury panel. I live in a place where there are enough phenotypical minorities to be randomly selected to a jury, but not enough phenotypical minorities to make it through all 9 of the prosecution’s peremptory strikes. We can expand the application of sortition across more areas of decision-making, but we have a tendency to break things by adding unnecessary complexity. (LVT exemptions is another example.)
The tendency to over complicate is common in programming too. There’s a weird easiness to complication. Instead of thinking, you just keep adding more rules.
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What I took away from the soccer scoring scenario was that we have a tendency to overcomplicate things which don’t need to be complicated (like kicking a ball around for fun … or our tax code).
Also, I can empathize with the lady who gets kicked off the jury panel. I live in a place where there are enough phenotypical minorities to be randomly selected to a jury, but not enough phenotypical minorities to make it through all 9 of the prosecution’s peremptory strikes. We can expand the application of sortition across more areas of decision-making, but we have a tendency to break things by adding unnecessary complexity. (LVT exemptions is another example.)
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
We aim for elegance.
The tendency to over complicate is common in programming too. There’s a weird easiness to complication. Instead of thinking, you just keep adding more rules.
This is how we get spaghetti monsters.
Best one yet. People need to know the benefits and how it will help them win. We dumb. It is the way it is.
“we dumb” pretty good line! heh
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