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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 1 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.619s | source
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VikingCoder ◴[12 Jul 18 16:40 UTC] No.17516310[source]▶
I've begged GitHub to institute forms of government for repos.

For X action to happen, Y percent of the pool of people in the Z list need to approve it.

Membership of the Z list is granted when W percent of the T pool approve it.

Modifying the rules of government of this repo can only happen when L percent of the R pool approve it.

And on and on...

I could imagine a city or state government actually having its laws encoded in Github, and Github itself enforces the governmental system of checks and balances. Congress. Senate. President. Veto. Overriding a Veto. Laws of succession. Elections. On and on.

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_wmd ◴[12 Jul 18 16:49 UTC] No.17516404[source]▶
Technology cannot solve social problems
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1. VikingCoder ◴[12 Jul 18 18:47 UTC] No.17517490[source]▶
The decisions that are made by the social group can be recorded with technology. The actions the group is capable of taking can be handed over to the technology. Thus, the ability to take those actions can be mechanically resolved.

Have your debate in email, but then VOTE in a way that can be automated.