Comment by la6471

Too much of anything is bad (in context). That is why too much input (ie taking everyone’s opinion) on a complex issue is just asking for paralysis by analysis. That is why there are multiple streams of higher learning and as a society the government employs the graduates of each stream as policy makers because they are supposed to be specialists in their field who can weigh in all pros and cons and understand the consequences to the extent possible , but better than the non specialists. This worked very well when information and opinions from everywhere and everything was not broadcasted at the speed that happens today. What I foresee is that if we continue to keep generating these gazillions of data points every second all the time then soon AI’s will be needed to do the analysis for us and complement or help human policy makers to make the right decisions. We already see this with things like sentiment analysis. Welcome to the singularity .. I for once can’t wait to have our constantly bickering politicians replaced with AI agents whose sole job is to work for the people and who can be overidden by executive authority only as a last resort.