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Hm. I assumed voting over the whole set of possible policies. So, they would all have to vote on actions like "do A1 with probability 1/n, ... do An with probability 1/n, do X with probability 0". Which is intuitively what the Parliament should do, right? Of course, it is a little less effficient when you have to vote on *everything* but.

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I've done some survey research to confirm that human societies are evaluatively diverse (http://grinfree.com/GRINSQ..... That suggests that something like this idea has several thousand years of track-record, although I'd call it an "ecosystem," rather than a "parliament." As Nick implied with his reference to Neurath's ship, we can manage existing ecosystems even before we identify all of the species they contain or the "ideal" proportions between them, and the same would be true of an existing evaluative ecosystem. However, as Nick just released "Superintelligence" I've got to ask, "Can one reliably design a brand new internally balanced evaluative ecosystem, or should computer-development fit into a managed already-existing ecosystem?" The Neurath's ship argument might not float in the former case...

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