What can you do when experts can’t be trusted? 

Draw lots.

This episode examines the ancient practice of “sortition,” which delegates decision-making power to random members of the public. 

Sometimes called “government by lottery,” sortition was used in ancient Athenian democracy to elect public officials. 

Now it’s undergoing a revival as tech companies (like Meta) and AI startups (like OpenAI and Anthropic) use the method to shape their policies.

Our guests today are Bailey Flanigan, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard who is joining MIT as an assistant professor next year, and who has helped develop selection algorithms for sortition that are in use today; and @andyhall, Stanford University poli sci professor, advisor to Meta, and consultant to a16z crypto research. 

w/ @hackr 🎙️

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What can you do when experts can’t be trusted? 

Draw lots.

This episode examines the ancient practice of “sortition,” which delegates decision-making power to random members of the public. 

Sometimes called “government by lottery,” sortition was used in ancient Athenian democracy to elect public officials. 

Now it’s undergoing a revival as tech companies (like Meta) and AI startups (like OpenAI and Anthropic) use the method to shape their policies.

Our guests today are Bailey Flanigan, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard who is joining MIT as an assistant professor next year, and who has helped develop selection algorithms for sortition that are in use today; and @andyhall, Stanford University poli sci professor, advisor to Meta, and consultant to a16z crypto research. 

w/ @hackr 🎙️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjG2qhAAz0Y

Love that topic! 
In same vein, here's a paper I co-authored (but never published) a few years ago: "How To Hold A Vote When Candidates Are Too
Many ? A Scalable And Random-Based Election"

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Love that topic! 
In same vein, here's a paper I co-authored (but never published) a few years ago: "How To Hold A Vote When Candidates Are Too
Many ? A Scalable And Random-Based Election"
https://thibauld.com/paper.pdf