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Giving epistocracy a Fair Hearing
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In this paper, Somin, Talisse, Gordon Allen, and Enzo Rossi participated in a Symposium on Computational Artificial Intelligence (CAA) with the goal of finding a solution to the problem of artificial intelligence.Abstract:
Thanks to Inquiry for hosting this symposium, and thanks to Ilya Somin, Robert Talisse, Gordon Allen, and Enzo Rossi for participating it. It’s an honor.I’m especially grateful for their contributi...read more
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eThekwini’s Green and Ecological Infrastructure Policy Landscape: Towards a Deeper Understanding
TL;DR: In this paper, the political context of green and ecological infrastructures coupled with water security in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa has been discussed and discussed.
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Epistocracy and Public Interests
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present six forms of epistocratic systems and argue that two of them are able to preserve the benefits of universal suffrage whilst overcoming the epistemic limitations of democracy.
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When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of the problem: the one-dimensional graph.
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eThekwini’s Green and Ecological Infrastructure Policy Landscape
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an investigation with experts inside and outside the eThekwini municipality who were involved in it's green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape and concluded that positivism dominates the thinking and practice of municipal officials and members of the epistemic community that collaborate with the municipality.
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What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters
TL;DR: Carpini and Keeter as mentioned in this paper found that whites, men, and older, financially secure citizens have substantially more knowledge about national politics than do blacks, women, young adults, and financially less-well-off citizens.
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Uninformed Votes: Information Effects in Presidential Elections
TL;DR: For example, this article found that individual deviations from fully informed voting cancel out in a mass electorate, producing the same aggregate election outcome as if voters were fully informed, and that the average deviation of actual vote probabilities from hypothetical "fully informed" vote probabilities was about ten percentage points.
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The myth of the rational voter
TL;DR: The theory that voters are aware of the insignificance of their votes, and therefore feel free to vote based on whatever beliefs they “prefer” to hold, regardless of whether or not these beliefs are true as mentioned in this paper.
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Against Democracy: Jason Brennan Princeton University Press, 2016, ix+288 pp., ISBN: 978-0691162607
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors return to one of the basic facts of the existence of this whole entanglement: specialization, which is the necessary substrate for the development of the global system and its corresponding morphology.
Hearing the other side
TL;DR: The far-reaching powers of the Department of Mineral Resources when enforcing compliance with the MHSA have been highlighted in this article, where the past year has witnessed the lowest fatality rate in the South African mining industry in recent history.