Xiaofan Chen wrote:

>> Many governance issues cannot be so easily tested, and engineers would
>> have just as bad a time at it as regular politicians.  But a good PID
>> algorithm here and there would certainly be an improvement in some
>> areas of government control... 
> 
> PID control? I think the social system is highly non-linear and it is
> really hard to model.

Yup... but /some/ sort of feedback loop would do good in most
administrations. We also have the advantage in this scenario that -- in
theory at least -- we can think about intelligent control algorithms :)

Gerhard

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