@laprice Yes. Citizens’ assemblies! I think they could be a really good institution, but a tricky part is, like jury duty, they should be compulsory. Otherwise self-selection to participate is a source of bias. people propose various kinds of stratified sortition to address it, and then we’re arguing over whether we’ve chosen the right characteristics to represent and the quality of statistical moves we make, whether perhaps some intentionally tendentious bias has been introduced.

@laprice (better utopian than dystopian, as so many among the most powerful seem enthusiastically to have become!)