A bold idea to replace politicians

If we look across the world, the median turnout in presidential elections over the last 30 years has been just 67 percent. Now, if we go to Europe and we look at people that participated in EU parliamentary elections, the median turnout in those elections is just 42 percent. Now let's go to New York, and let's see how many people voted in the last election for mayor, we will find that only 24 percent of people showed up to vote.

But in practice, we have to delegate that power to a representative that can exert that power for us. That representative is a bottleneck, or a weak spot.

Direct democracy is the idea of bypassing politicians completely and having people vote directly on issues, having people vote directly on bills. This idea is naive.

Liquid democracy, or fluid democracy, is the idea that you endorse your political power to someone, who can endorse it to someone else, and, eventually, you create a large follower network. [...] This idea doesn't solve the problem of the cognitive bandwidth and is quite similar to the idea of having a representative.

What if, instead of trying to bypass politicians, we tried to automate them?