Make Your Laws: Practical Liquid Democracy

Presented at HOPE Number Nine (2012), July 13, 2012, 8 p.m. (60 minutes).

This talk will include background on the concepts of direct, representative, and liquid democracies; the tradeoffs inherent in different types of government; interesting problems for online voting and policy authorship; examples of similar systems in different countries; discussion of some legal context (e.g. electronic signatures and the democratized use of Super PACs); a practical road map to gaining full control over your legislature; and Q&A. Make Your Laws (makeyourlaws.org) is an open source, nonprofit, practical project that aims to replace all existing legislatures with online liquid democracies. The aim is simple: to let you make your laws.

Presenters:

• Sai
  Sai does a wide variety of things, including Make Your Laws, a practical liquid democracy project; CogSai, a YouTube channel on cognitive science; creating a nonlinear written language; social neuroscience of empathy; and design and programming.

Links:

• http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/#make (Conference Schedule)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE Number Nine (2012)/HOPE Number Nine (2012) - Make Your Laws - Practical Liquid Democracy.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE Number Nine (2012)/HOPE Number Nine (2012) - Make Your Laws - Practical Liquid Democracy.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMc0Piwx8SU

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