Lawmaking could learn a lot from the open source community. Imagine a wiki + git + democratic voting style system. All laws and changes would be hosted on a publicly available website. Any citizen could browse and submit "pull requests" which would then get debated and eventually voted on if they gain enough traction.
Obviously such a system would be way more complicated than I can describe in a single HN comment, but I do think we have the technology to build a much more public, accessible, and directly democratic method of writing laws.
As an aside, did you know no one even knows how many federal laws exist?[1].
Obviously such a system would be way more complicated than I can describe in a single HN comment, but I do think we have the technology to build a much more public, accessible, and directly democratic method of writing laws.
As an aside, did you know no one even knows how many federal laws exist?[1].
[1] https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-questio...