Can Math Help Repair Democracy? | Sam Wang | TED 

🙏 Thank you, Sam Wang 🙏 For the knowledge and helping us logically understand how Democracy "should work". With how corrupted it has become, we NEED some form of Revolution 🌍☮️

I'm Japanese high school student. TED help to learn English speaking and listening. So,I want to try to listen every day!

Make this guy a Chief Data Scientist, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Senior Advisor on Policy and Analytics, Economic Advisor or Head of the Council of Economic Advisers, Advisor on Electoral Reform, ANYTHING BUT THESE CLOWNS

Now It's time to reconstruction of democracy system 🎉

Sadly, the answer is no because truth has lost all meaning in society today.

This is *so great*. If we want to understand a complex system, the only way is to model it. As Princeton Professor Sam Wang describes, there are strong parallels to politics and brains. I deeply appreciate the clarity Prof. Wang is delivering, and the parallels he is drawing.

Yeah it will work but not unless we remove establishment money who will always tilt the balance to the candidate of their choice so this will never work, but if they were forced to only use an exact amount of money for their campaign that is even for every candidate,

The core aspect of democracy is discussion and debate. That’s why freedom of speech is the most important thing to protect.

> Giving a TED talk > Not labeling axes on graphs

Election System should be without parties ❤

Gerrymandering, Electoral College, Lobbyism AKA Legalized Bribery, When did any of you think this was a Democracy? We live in Capitalism 100% Bought and Paid For.

Democracy is barely functional. We stopped trying to improve and find a better system. Democracy is the best form of government we (humanity) designed so far. But that doesn't mean it's any good. I wouldn't want to go back to other forms of governance from history, but there is a perception that Democracy is amazing and there is no need to move past it. It's absolutely not. It's a deeply flawed system that just barely not collapses completely.

I thought this said meth saving democracy, not math

Looks like samwang knows a lot about maths

Here’s the deal, these machines will still be made by mankind. Therefore, the chance that someone does something to modify said machine in the interest of greed and or power, is almost certain to happen. Would we have an easier or harder time dismantling this setup? And all this “progress” would be nice, but who’s to say some of the choices wouldn’t possibly be ‘infected’ or designed to cause problems? Now we have to shut down all these changes??

You are the great 👍

Now if we could just convince the voting public to stop voting for who they want, and, make data scientists decide who the best Government is. ?

With ranked choice voting, the Electoral College would become superfluous, and gerrymandering would become pointless. So, if only the swing states would adopt ranked choice voting, election results would become quite different. Bipartisan results would split the electoral votes and these states as swing states would be neutralized.

The summer of 2020 was worse than January 6, 2021.

🎯💎🏆 Great insightful & fruitful video 🏆💎🎯 लोकः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु ( May all beings lead prosperous life across Globe 🌍 )

Resourced based economy all over the world. The venus project.

This is an undergraduate-level presentation. It is only about his own country, not about "the world". Nothing new. Every problem discussed already has been solved, has been modelled extensively, and is long-term political reality in many parts of the world. There is ample real and theoretical data and analysis over many decades. I only learnt American professors are still insular.

Theres a simpler solution: Parliamentary democracy

Yes, more math is almost always better. Only fools naysay math and we needn't suffer them.

Around the 9 minutes You call a new voting system called, Top four primary vote, here in England we a have been pushing for a reform of the two party system, But not the system of multi-party voting as in Europe were in the case of France only the top two or three candidates are put forward for election a week after the first vote if no candidate gets 51% of the vote, this as resulted in the top candidate being side lined by the other parties’ votes going against them. Is it unfair, do people feel cheated. Or there is the system in other European of a single multi-party voting system were a popular candidate gets more votes then any other candidate, but does not get the required 51% of the vote is again not allowed to form a Government because the other candidate decide who will support who so as to get a total of 51% of the vote to form a government. Again the question is it unfair, do people feel cheated. What some people in England have called for a] Voter ID [now done] before casting a vote. Then b] The voter numbers the candidates on the form in order of preference. Then it is both a secret vote, and the counting is fairly simple. All the votes are totalled up if any candidate gets 51% on the first count the candidate is deemed elected. If 51% vote is not achieved, then the candidate with the lowest vote has his/her votes counted and the second choice is added to the remaining candidates until a candidate gets 51% of the vote. If a candidate does not achieve 51% of the vote again the lowest candidates’ votes are counted and the second preference is transferred the candidates until 51% of the vote is achieved. It is a secure system, people only vote once and no political gerrymandering or tactical voting can be done, if a second vote is required. This system of voting is called the transferrable vote system. Yes, it requires honesty within the counters, but with adequate supervision that is not a problem. Lastly, we have asked for the postal vote to be much stringent and unless a severe illness, or disability prevents the voter turning up in person, them ALL votes must be in person.

"Great analysis! The presidential election held on September 21st in Sri Lanka reflected a similar pattern we've seen in other countries, where voters have grown disillusioned with the two-party system that has dominated for nearly five decades. Interestingly, a president was elected from a third party this time, breaking the long-standing trend. In previous elections, we’ve seen heightened polarization, with voter behavior appearing more divided than it actually was. Looking ahead to the parliamentary elections, redistricting should be seriously considered, especially as demographics shift over time."

How about less greed and more common sense.

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Yes... 0+0=0

No

1981 Afton Tunnel

Elections and representation might be replaceable with direct actions and control or through individualized agents and concurrent processes in real time to ensure optimal outcomes.

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democrazy is an error and contradiction in itself even the ancient greeks knew of the fallacy

I am crying right now. He really thought it out.

No, not that much; but spreading knowledge an conscious among publics, can...

Given that the implementation of policies in the US matches a plutocracy closer than a real democracy, what exactly is the point of stabilizing and saving that system? Why not just let it fall apart, then maybe build a better democracy from scratch?

Remove hate, add tolerance, equals peace?

Issue is the common person is uneducated and follows feelings instead of reason.

00:13 "A simulation can game through thousands or even millions of possibilities.". Is this correct? I don't understand. I'm a english student.

Top -4 primaries are (pick-1 primaries). They're garbage. He makes a very short mention of how primaries should be run (with Approval voting). Redistricting should be done with ungameable shortest splitline algorithm to end *all* shenanigans (for good or bad) But the real solution isn't even mentioned STAR Voting. Cardinal method are much better systems over ordinal. As an electoral reform advocate I'm glad these places have banned RCV. Ranked Choice Voting is a truly bad system in practice and math and if this guy is an expert he would know that. Imo we shouldn't have primaries. We just need a cardinal ballot (Approval or STAR) for a general election with a wide field of candidates. This has many benefits that aren't even mentioned as problems in this video - like money in politics. This is one of the least informed electoral reform TED talks I've watched.

How does math solve targeted assassinations?

We must have faith in democracy

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