Sounds like how humans work (which is good) having the more experienced human do the task if the novice fails should come after attempting to explain how the novice should do it.
Early on in the internet age it somewhat bothered me that every page on the www either acts like it is the first thing one reads on a topic or assumes great knowledge of the subject. With nothing in between.
Wondering about a technical solution I couldn't find anything besides fold out explanations and links to explain jargon. Neither would really bridge the gap.
One obvious theory was to keep track of what the user knows and hide things they don't need or unhide things they do. This is of course was not acceptable from a privacy perspective.
Today however you could forge a curriculum for countless topics and [artificially] promote a great diversity of entry level videos. If the user is into something they can be made to watch more entry level videos until they are ready for slightly more advanced things. You can reward creators for filling gaps between novice and expert level regardless of view count.
Almost like Khan academy but much slower, more playful and less linear.
Imagine programming videos that assume the reader knows everything about each and every tool involved. The algorithm could seek out the missing parts and feed them directly into your addiction or put bounties on the scope.
You can do diplomas for different parts of government and assign ranks to voters based on their familiarity with the topic. Then you can share the voting results by how informed people are. If I don't know much about the topic buy those who do say we should go to war with the martians it might change my opinion.
You can also use it as a trigger to create media attempting to objectively inform the oblivious if they drift to far away. These should be large expensive efforts with not-propaganda at the top of the agenda. Show the giant weapon the martians are building in earth orbit.
You can also keep the representatives as the default vote. That way, if their financial backers or those blackmailing them try to sneak in their usual bullshit you can log in and change the vote.
If the representatives picks their own representative anyone can be your representative. You can at any time change your vote to your mum and ignore politics
I also envision each law requiring a minimum number of yes votes to be activated and a minimum number of no to deactivate.
If there are few enough yes votes and enough no's the law is deleted. You can change your vote at any time.
Have some algorithm to implement the changes over time so that Mr beast has to make many months of effort.
Government employees are to work on new law proposals to replace the least popular ones. If they fail to read the room hard enough first their salary is reduced and eventually they get fired algorithmically. If they get it right often enough we increase their salary endlessly but they still get fired if they get it wrong repeatedly. If they don't know anymore new courses and new diplomas are created.
I also want to give the voter a monthly payment for each diploma they got. Asking people to do important work for free makes no sense. How much is up to the voters.
You shouldn't care about presentation but others will.
I think an llm approach could be good. You make suggestions in however insane language and it converts the format to something boring and mundane accepted by all clients.
Some people are to brief, some elaborate more than necessary.
I really want this to be as simple as forwarding the user through a gov website and receiving a hash on a webhook. All I really want to know is that it is a citizen and the same hash as last time
The solution is obvious and not going to happen. Extra tax, super cheap rent with conditions: Minimum number of products, product diversity, open x days per year (etc?)
30 years ago there was this lovely shop here full of hand crafted wooden dolls and beautiful wooden statues about the size of a garden gnome. They were reasonably expensive but an absolute joy to look at without buying anything.
I don't think selling tickets like in a museum would work for a place like that. If they tax me 10 bucks the city could buy the building and continue to lure me into town.
here in the Netherlands a lot of shops that use to own their building switched to renting it to some sucker who does all of the work for a fraction of the profit. Then, when they go bankrupt you put a new sucker in.
I think the dumbest thing that happened in the west was the combination of lack of access to education and mass immigration. Many found themselves competing for jobs with people starting with nothing, often even without knowing the language.
Had we upgraded the training of natives it would have been very exciting to see so many capable hands flood into the country. Everyone could be hiring!
A concrete box with a door and a bed in it. 3 meals per day. A computer and a book. A professor or teacher to sometimes hold your hand. It doesn't have to be expensive. It doesn't have to be every man for himself. It definitely doesn't have to fit an exploitation model.
Now with AI we could even tailor education for exactly the market demand. No need to let little jimmy figure out his own business plan. Could write it to fit market and investor demand. And if he fails he goes back to school for the next project.
The Chinese are killing it in education but there is no reason to think it can't be made even easier, more effective and cheaper.
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