approval voting is great. i co-founded a major non-profit that got it adopted in fargo and st louis. for election by jury i'd advocate score voting, since higher resolution is more valuable with small groups.
election by jury is better. elections aren't the problem — uninformed voters are the problem. especially if the turnout is statistically demographically biased (older, whiter, wealthier, more conservative, etc.)
I think their point was that there is no empirical definition of information as it relates to the observer. The expurimint you cite worked upon a physical system that already had a state prior to the expurimint.
If everything is information, then nothing is.
A disordered system still has state. You just don't know what it is.
Fair point on the semantics. But I'm not talking about subjective 'knowledge.' I'm talking about the thermodynamic cost to maintain a state.
Landauer showed that information processing is physical (heat). I’m just extending that logic: if the universe has to process too much state data in one spot, the cost isn't just heat—it's lag (Time Dilation).
It doesn't matter if we observe the mess; the system still has to render it.
The Watt-hour is a "UI hack" that hides the conflict between base-10 math and base-60 time. It forces us to multiply a rate (Watts) by time to get energy, only to divide back by time to understand flow.
I propose a unit shift to align physics with human scheduling: The Jot (Jt ), defined as 1 Joule/hour.
It shifts the awkward math (1 hr=3600 s) out of the usage calculation and onto the device rating.
Conversion: 1 Watt = 3.6 kiloJots (kJt ).
Usage Math: A 50 kJt bulb running for 10 hours uses exactly 500 kJ. No conversion factors.
Battery Math: Capacity (Joules) / Rate (Jots) = Time (Hours). Pure integer division.
This post argues for killing the Watt-hour, measuring energy in Petajoules, and measuring power in Jots.
have you ever worked with pivotal Labs? One of my biggest faults I guess is that I worked with femme and they have such an incredibly high bar for understanding, design patterns and cyclomatic complexity and solid and test driven development principles and so forth that once you've worked with them, anywhere else you go is going to feel like a dumpster fire. so then you'll just pull your hair out thinking everyone's an idiot, even if it's really just a lot of bad incentives.
approval voting is great. i co-founded a major non-profit that got it adopted in fargo and st louis. for election by jury i'd advocate score voting, since higher resolution is more valuable with small groups.
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