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SOFTWARE AND POLITICS


ARTIFICACTS HAVE POLITICS

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652

https://sbuss.substack.com/p/politics-for-software-engineers-part-2 “Blockchain
voting addresses how to vote in a trust-less society, but a trust-less society
cannot have a functioning democracy.” -> error-handling

Potential use of Merkle Trees? (but also, city-is-not-a-tree )


SIMPLICITY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT PROVABLY CORRECT

“I think where most software engineers fail at politics, it’s in understanding
that key point. We tend to over engineer our systems and never need to explain
the inner workings to anyone who is non-technical. This isn’t restricted to just
software engineers, of course. Any sufficiently advanced technology is difficult
to explain in terms a non-expert can understand. But we do, at least, understand
that we need to tailor the front-end user experience to the target demographic.”

Curious how this ties into the [over simplification of user
interfaces](/thoughts/books/mindstorms#Microworlds and simplification)

“Blockchain voting fails at the most basic test of social technology: can you
explain how it works to someone skeptical of the people in power in a way that
makes them trust the system?”

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