The article “Without Alignment between Conditions, Goals, and Mechanisms, Political Cheating Can Occur” was published in mirror.xyz To summarize, When evaluating political claims, conditions, goals, and mechanisms all need to be considered. For example, pursuing only goals may lead to idealism, while pursuing only institutions will only result in technical…

The text “Turning Budget Proposals Into Faces (Noh Masks: Omote)” was published in mirror.xyz In the summer of 2020, we were developing a play to generate “faces” based on the “meaning” of the budget proposal, using BERT, a large-scale language model at the time. Budget allocations are a good indicator…

A Virtual Government Would Be Nice (7) A “virtual government” like a mirror budget resembles the concept of so-called “special administrative districts.” A Future Filled with Mirror Budgets and Virtual governments A Virtual Government Would Be Nice (4)vection.medium.com A “special administrative district” is a mechanism for regional revitalization or experimentation by designating a specific area and deregulating restrictions there only.

From Mirror Budget to Weak Anarchism (6) Previous entry. There used to be an idea called anarchism. It is usually treated as meaning “an ideal for which some (violent and) terrible person aspires. …

A Virtual Government Would Be Nice (6) There is an AI technique called “reinforcement learning.” A while back, it became a hot topic after an AI played an Atari video game better than a human. In fact, however, at that moment in several games, the AI was not quite up to par with humans. …

From Mirror Budget to Weak Anarchism (5) Previous entry. The “Mirror budget” may be integrated with the “prediction-normalized vote” mentioned earlier, from that point of voting（budget allocation） with an awareness of one’s position on the whole. If “how to allocate the budget in the Mirror Budget” is thought of as…

A Virtual Government Would Be Nice (5) Reason one. If preferences for public goods such as parks (and the tax burden for them) differ from region to region, and by taking an average value, the central government would create inefficiencies in all areas equal to the difference between the average value and the ideal tax burden for…

From Mirror Budget to Weak Anarchism (4) Previous entry. If the Mirror Budget is not carried out as a real budget proposal, what is the difference between “Mirror Budget” and saying “I like your idea!” or “Are you there?”? Doesn’t the Mirror Budget, which continually presents budget proposals instead of…

A Virtual Government Would Be Nice (4) We have proposed the system below before. Mirror Budget as Streaming Budget Votes From Mirror Budget to Weak Anarchism (3)vection.medium.com See the citation for details, but in short, it is a system in which all citizens act as a “government” to determine budget allocations, well aggregated to determine how to spend taxpayer money as much as possible without a government. …