From: Geoff Tillman (geoff_tillman@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 16:33:34 MST
I think the idea is....inefficiencies = good. They are too
busy sparing each other to bother us.
Our goverment was made deliberatly gridlocked. A major reason
for the balance of powers
> Eliezer sed:
> >I was recently musing that the Senate was originally
> intended to have 26
> >members... maybe a few more as time went on, but still 26
> originally. A
> >small, tight group; not like a Senate of 100 at all. One
> Senator of 26,
> >nationwide, would have considerably more prestige than one
> Senator of
> >100. People might even be able to remember who they are.
> >
> >Maybe it's time to jump to one Senator for every two
> states instead of the
> >other way around. Not that it'll ever happen. It's just
> one item more
> >for the little list.
> >Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> http://singinst.org/
> >Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial
> Intelligence
>
> if there were 26, that would still be two for each state. I
> just figured
> that was the reason for that figure, since we started with
> thirteen..
>
> I would like to see one Senator per state. I'm not sure if
> it would make
> things better or worse, only less complex. I think there
> are too many
> representatives, but I respect the reasons behind their
> numbers, even though
> they only change every ten years. (with all this technology
> to count people
> WITHOUT the census?)
>
> Anybody else see horrible inefficiencies?
>
> I'm always a fan of less v. more, I suppose..
>
> --
> anrkngl@lowmagnet.org http://www.lowmagnet.org/
>
>
_________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at
> http://explorer.msn.com
>
=====
"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he deems himself your master
...Sid Meier
When we turn away from the darkness of
our past to take comfort in our peaceful lives, we
sometimes forget how dearly that peace was bought. But
there is much worth remembering in the darkness..."--Tolkein
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:32:28 MST