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patcon·Jan 10, 2025

Neat! Might this even be useful to impute missing data for a sparse network of votes, for a system like this (pol.is) whose goal is to do dimensional reduction and visualise the opinion space of divisive social topics: https://gwern.net/doc/sociology/2021-small.pdf 200 voters on 50 statements would fall within the 10,000 sample threshold. This is well within the bounds of some existing conversations with open data, so it could be tested... Potential values on each statement are agree/disagree/pass (+1/-1/0) https://github.com/compdemocracy/openData/blob/master/brexit... https://github.com/compdemocracy/openData/blob/master/brexit...

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colinmegill·Nov 28, 2021

Certainly a number of valid concerns here. Like any tool, polis is as good as its context, usage, data inputs. I can offer a specific case study with data, that deals with the discovery of the specific values of a specific population in the context of highly contested issue that has played out over a multi-decade period: A debrief: https://pep.org.nz/2020/12/01/doc-tries-to-restore-e-democra... The professional facilitators who work at nation scale in NZ: https://pep.org.nz/ The convo: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1908/S00014/scoop-hivemind... The reporting: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1911/S00063/biodiversity-h... Raw data: https://github.com/compdemocracy/openData/tree/master/scoop-... Direct link to PEP's report to the Ministry of Conservation: https://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/1911/Biodiversity_HiveMin... This is an ideal

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use case, but it is encouraging to us (and has motivated me over the course of the past decade) that given some combination of factors, there can be real progress, and while yes, it takes a bit of work, we do spend an enormous amount of time and money on worse outcomes than this. So, we can "save one starfish" https://raycenter.wp.drake.edu/2018/06/29/the-starfish-story... and put some lights on the horizon of other possible systems, should we inspire some millions, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions to be spent on other political activities than driving wedges.

In Polis – Large Scale Discussions

colinmegill·Nov 27, 2021

Great question. You can see raw data from a conversation on biodiversity that took place in New Zealand in partnership with the Ministry of Conservation and hosted by an independent news organization here: https://github.com/compdemocracy/openData/tree/master/scoop-... If you take a look at the comments file, you can judge whether the system has been successful at getting people to submit a single idea at a time for people to agree and disagree on. My assessment is: mostly yes, sometimes there are still multiple ideas in 140 characters. The system encourages the decomposition of ideas, so that we can identify which factors may be ignorable and which are significant to our purposes (consensus/disagreement/differentation).

In Polis – Large Scale Discussions