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EGYPT 2018: FIRST FEEDING OF BOOTED EAGLE (English subtitles) - Duration: 14:33.

so at us day 2 what situation we have

Here came bought bought washed because hung before that on the wall paper

now they went to buy a material like this for a tablecloth such an oilcloth

all washed out hung

she waited on the floor sitting. Denis: I can tie it down a bit. Mom: She'll decide later.

you need to calculate. the leash must be from here to here

Mom: But does she get it to the ground normally?

I now do not understand it rises. Deny: No. Therefore, she can not normally stand up.

Mom: How not? Denis: I need it below. Mama: Oh well. Now make it lower.

No, no. Sit down, sit, sit

Denis: She worry. Mom: No, she did not. She just did not understand that she was attached

Mom: She will then understand that she is tied. She will then wave her wings.

Mom: She must wave her wings. What do you think she'll be sitting like a monument?

Mom: She most importantly sees that there is space, that there is sex. Now she will settle on the floor a little. Most importantly, she understands that there is no cage.

What is space. What is the floor, what is the ceiling. She has already appreciated.

Denis: On a leash like a dog. Mom: Well, how else does it turn out.

Mom: You understand, no one taught this. This is the first time

do not be afraid, do not be afraid

eat the beauty. That's what a fine little girl

Here and so eat. Malyak: Yes

sat before that under the table. Now all have put. So she could calmly croak.

We bought detol, sponges, gloves. To be able to clean

she calmly ate today stuffing. My mother fed her stuffed in the morning.

because there were no chicken wings

ate a little minced, refused to drink water

yes my good yes my girl slept normally at night

Head hiding under the wing or behind the wing. Very good. Even from her smells quite strong

The idea was told that it was necessary to wash it and said that it was necessary to wash it with apple cider vinegar

it will not be harmful. here maybe tomorrow we can wash. Wash it all

Fleas or I do not know any insects has found

Well, you where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going?

Where are you going? Maybe you want to drink.

Today we have the second day. We want to feed the child

Do not you want to eat or something? She's not used to it. She waits for her to put it.

Today, the third day yesterday, my mother gave her stuffing she ate a lot of mince

She opens her mouth as if. I just do not know what to throw it on the cage.

She's holding. And she needs to cut it or she should. And here it is

I see what she does. Interesting. She clawed at this meat with her claws. Look Denis.

Meat in my hand I hold it

eat

yes, she sees the camera on the camera reacting. You think it's some other bird

or you are uncomfortable

you see start eating

you see she insisted on her

she was certainly hungry. How much she did not eat?

hungry

good good good

this our anger we removed met. kernel. Today, we will make an addiction to the stump so that she can sit

It's okay not to sit on the cage and sit on the soft

on a soft litter. You see how she

they eat like this

so no poor birdie wants to eat a small child. There is a predator

who will try. They are smarter than cats. It can be make her on the floor?

maybe it's not so convenient for her. Though it's probably customary for her

mathematics? Denis: Russian language. Well Call. Do you have a number?

Those. you know when they steals these poor birds from the balconies

they eat like this right away

I wonder how she gets them out of the cage

disoriented. Remember I told you,

they can not do anything. They are apparently starting to behave

She hold chicken wings with claws

and pulls it away by a piece

A sitting saw how proudly? As if she does not want to eat.

And ideally, it is necessary to give quails and pigeons

a quail in Arabic is samen, and the dove of a hamam

Well, cleaned up?

You're just as quick. And then like you are such a quiet modest

Well, did you finished?

For her legs, there are such things here. Because she has ropes on her legs. It was not prepared normally

You see on the paws these are the ropes. And you should wear such straps.

Therefore, she will need to change her clothes. What is good is that you can buy liver separately, heart.

You can buy wings, legs. Those. any parts that you need can be bought.

By kilograms

Those. if I need wings, I do not need to buy a whole chicken

You can buy a kilogram. We have in this case 2 kilograms of chicken wings.

But that's how she eats

Today we will try to finish the place for her. To define it in the corner on the stand.

the prick was cut off it was originally made as an Arabic version

With a pin like this for sticking into the ground

tried to put a bucket, poured the sand and put it on and

but it is absolutely unrealistic for it to jump jump up and down and she

so they could hit about this bucket so they decided to cut it off

dragged here this metal pin today we take a piece of wood such

big enough square and we will make that is and here this I shall attach on this

a piece of wood to make it comfortable to sit and how to jump and sleep. Well, how would I live on this thing

we have a cell as it were. but it is useless to us. at every

case. in it we were carrying her

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Allen School Colloquia: Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University) - Duration: 1:03:47.

- Good afternoon everyone.

It's a great pleasure for me to introduce professor

Ariel Procaccia from Carnegie Mellon University.

Ariel does amazing work at the intersection of

artificial intelligence, theory, and economics.

His work spans many, many different topics,

ranging from fair division, to voting,

to machine learning and beyond.

He does foundational work on the theoretical side,

and he takes his ideas all the way to practice.

For example, building some non-for-profit website called

spliddit.org that you can take your fair division

problems to and a number of other things of that nature.

He's recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award,

Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF Career,

and a number of other awards, many best paper awards.

And it's a great pleasure for us

to have him talk about democracy.

- Thank you very much Anna.

It's a pleasure to be here.

So the topic of the talk is extreme democracy.

And I want to start with this quote from Pia Mancini.

She is an Argentinian politician and activist.

She gave a very popular Ted talk of couple years ago,

where she quoted Marshall Mcluhan who was a

Canadian professor, saying that politics is solving

today's problems with yesterday's tools.

Now you may be wondering why

I'm not quoting Marshall Mcluhan directly.

The reason is that he didn't actually say that.

He said that "Our 'Age of Anxiety' is the result

"of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools."

Nevertheless, I really like Pia Mancini's version

of the quote about politics.

So I'm going to, you know, attribute this quote to her.

And the point I want to make here is closely related

to this, which is that the world has really changed

in the last couple of decades because of modern technology,

but the way in which we do democracy

hasn't fundamentally changed for centuries.

And it seems like a really good time to think

about, you know, how we do democracy.

Think, you know, rethink democracy to some degree.

And the theme of the talk is going to be that

computer science can play a big role in this discussion,

both in terms of thinking about the practice of democracy,

how we do democracy and also in terms of thinking

about expanding the potential reach of democracy,

so thinking about new application domains where this

combination of computational thinking

and democratic thinking, if you will, can give us

new ways to accomplish our goals.

So I'm going to illustrate this theme through three topics

that we've worked on in the last year or so.

The first is liquid democracy which is a new paradigm

that allows voters to delegate their votes to others.

The second is participatory budgeting which is the

idea that a local government, usually a city,

engages its residents in the process of allocating

the budget or some part of the budget.

And the last part will be virtual democracy which

is a term I came up with for the purposes of this talk.

But the idea is that we are going to have a virtual

election among machine learning models of people,

and we're going to aggregate their virtual

preferences to make a decision.

And I'll show you how we're thinking about applying

this kind of approach in order to automate

decisions on ethical dilemmas.

So let's get started with liquid democracy.

This is joint work with Anson Kahng and Simon Mackenzie,

and I'll give you the full references

at the end of the talk.

So a good place to start here is just positioning

liquid democracy in the context of other forms

government that you're all familiar with.

So one is monarchy or dictatorship, something

that's been popular for many years in history.

So here we have a king or a queen or a dictator,

and when it's time to make a decision, there's

only one vote that counts and that's the

vote of the king or queen.

On the other extreme, we have what's called

direct democracy which was famously

practiced in ancient Athens.

And the way it worked there is everybody would show up.

All of the citizens would show up to the same place.

And everybody would vote directly on the issue at hand.

Now one caveat is that of course not everybody

could be a citizen.

Women were not citizens.

Slaves were not citizens.

But overall this allowed

for some measure of wide participation.

A big shortcoming for this kind of approach

is that it doesn't scale.

So if you think about today's world with all of its

complexities, it seems unrealistic to expect

every citizen to be informed about every issue

and really have the time to express an opinion

about, you know, all of the issues that come up.

So partly for that reason, we have what's called

representative democracy which is, you know...

The way it works is we have professional politicians

whose job it is to be aware of the various issues.

We elect some of them to Parliament,

and when it's time to vote, there the ones who

actually vote on our behalf.

So this works reasonably well in many cases.

The, you know, one shortcoming of this approach is

that our representatives don't always vote according

to the way we would want them to vote.

And even worse, they may not vote with our

best interests at heart.

So this motivates, this new paradigm, liquid democracy

that you can think of as lying between direct

democracy and representative democracy.

So the way this works is every voter can vote directly

on the issue at hand, or they can choose

to delegate their vote to another voter.

And the crucial point is that

these delegations are transitive.

So if I delegate to Anna and Anna delegates her vote

to Pedro, Pedro would vote on behalf of both Anna and me.

So here's an example where we have a delegation graph,

a directed edge from i to j says that i delegates to j.

So what would happen here is that when we're actually

voting on some issue, the sinks of this graph,

the ones that don't have outgoing edges were

not delegating or the ones who actually vote.

So in this situation we're going to have two voters,

this one and this one, who only vote on their own behalf.

We have one voter here with the weight of two that

votes on behalf of one other voter.

And we have this super voter with the weight of six

that votes on behalf of five other voters, everybody

with a directed path to this voter.

So to me this seems like a really compelling idea,

and its been really gaining steam in the last few years.

So there's been a number of systems that have gained

some traction built on liquid democracy.

One is the liquid feedback system which is, for example,

being used by the German Pirate Party.

It's a funny sounding party, but it actually had quite

a bit of political power a couple of years ago.

And they used the system, for example, to collaboratively

decide on the party platform, what they want to advocate.

More recently there have been a couple of parties

that basically suggested to hack the political system

by running for Parliament as usual.

But what they said was if we get elected to Parliament,

our representatives would vote according

to the wishes of the party members,

and those wishes will be determined

by a liquid democracy based system.

So one example is the Net Party in Argentina.

Pia Mancini is actually one of the founders of this party.

They have a system called DemocracyOS, which is

built on liquid democracy.

Another example is the Flux Party in Australia.

They have a system also called Flux.

Now unfortunately, neither party actually won

any seats in Parliament.

But this was like a nice attempt that did attract

quite a bit of attention

to the idea of liquid democracy and its potential.

So what I want to do is think about liquid democracy

in a formal model and try to reason a bit

about, you know, when it works well

and especially when it doesn't work well.

So in this model, we're going to have a directed

graph G, where the vertices coincide with voters,

and we have an edge from i to j if voter i knows voter j

or even knows of voter j.

Now I'm going to assume that

there are only two alternatives.

So it's a binary issue that we're deciding on.

And moreover one of them is correct and one is incorrect.

So I'm thinking about a case where we have some ground truth

and what voters are trying

to do is determine this ground truth.

So for example, think about a policy decision like

tax reform, and imagine that we're evaluating it

according to some objective measure, like will, you know,

by how much will the national debt increase in five years.

So according to this objective measure, one alternative is

better than the other.

Right, under one the national debt will increase less

than under the other, maybe even would go down.

So think of this better alternative according

to the objective measure as the correct alternative,

and we think of the other alternative

as the incorrect alternative.

Now when there are only two alternatives,

there's only one reasonable to make,

way to make decisions, which is majority vote.

And remember that under liquid democracy,

we could have some delegations.

So we're going to look at the majority of weight

given to any of the two choices.

Now in addition, every voter has a confidence level pi,

which is his probability of voting correctly.

So the way to think about this is when it's time

for me to vote, I try to estimate, what's, if I did

decide to vote, I try to estimate what's the correct

decision according to the information available to me

and whatever knowledge I have.

And then, you know, I try to make a determination,

and I'm going to get it right with probability pi,

and I'm going to get it wrong

with probability one minus pi.

Now another important definition is

this idea of approval.

So we say that voter i approves j if i knows j,

if the edge ij is in the graph.

And moreover crucially, voter j is more competent than i

by a margin of at least alpha or more than alpha

for some parameter alpha of the model.

So this is going to be a necessary condition

for delegation, the fact that i knows j

and also we have this margin incompetence.

This is of course a very strong assumption, right,

because it says that we can only delegate

to people who are more competent.

So this really helps liquid democracy.

And the way I want to justify it is by noting that the

main result that I want to tell you about is a negative

result against liquid democracy.

So by making this assumption that really helps liquid

democracy, I'm only going to make

the negative result more powerful.

So let's see an example of where things might go wrong.

So this is our graph G.

It's a star.

It has only eight arms in the illustration,

but think about many arms.

And the competence level of the arms will be 0.6.

And the competence level of the center is 0.8.

So it's significantly more competent.

Let's say that alpha, this margin is less than 0.2.

So under direct democracy, all of the voters would vote

independently, and then the expected number, fraction

of correct votes will be close to 0.6 times the

number of vertices.

And with high probability, the actual number will

be close to the expectation.

So with high probability,

we will have a majority of correct votes.

Alright so, you know, this follows

from any concentration equality.

It actually dates back. - [Male Student] Independent.

- Independent, yeah, so the voting is

going to be independent.

- [Male Student] People's private

information is independent.

- Yeah, so there's no correlation whatsoever.

Yeah, notice by the way, you know, this example

can be modified even if we do have some correlation.

Let me say a few words about this in thirty seconds.

So, you know, under direct democracy we will

have the right decision with high probability.

Under liquid democracy, you know, in an eve delegation

model, everybody would delegate to the center.

The center is more competent, so the center gets

it right with probability 0.8.

But the center also makes a mistake

with probability 0.2 which is pretty significant.

So here even though everybody delegated to a more

competent vertex, we're actually doing worse than before.

And just to note, you know, regarding correlation,

so for example one thing you could say here is maybe,

you know, everybody depends on the center.

So if the center is correct, the arms will vote

correctly with probability 0.61.

And if the center is incorrect, it would vote, vote

correctly with probability 0.56.

So it would still give you 0.6 probability of being correct.

So of course, like the example would be robust

to this kind of thing.

Right so what you would get, I guess, is the arms

are conditioning, dependent of each other,

given the center in this example.

And things would still work out.

And some of the stuff I'll talk about can be

extended to allow some measure of correlation,

but we will assume independence.

- I think what, naturally with the case is that it's

the most highly correlated voters

that choose the same representatives.

So it's exactly the opposite of the situation.

It's people who are agree you're like, who'll

tend to pick the same representative.

- Right, but here. - Which makes this less bad.

- Yeah, I mean in this, obviously, right,

so I guess in this social network we have the

situation where people are not really connected

to each other.

Everybody's connected to the center.

Right, so here the only reasonable model of correlation

would be with the center.

But you're absolutely right, like, if, if we did

assume such a model, that would only strengthen

this kind of result.

Okay, so what we want to do is think about whether

we can get around this kind of phenomenon,

if we allow for more clever delegation mechanisms.

So what's a delegation mechanism?

It's going to be a function that observes

the underlying graph G and the approval relations.

So it can't observe the exact competence levels,

but it does have access to the approval relation.

And it decides possibly at random, whether each voter votes

or delegates and to whom.

So I want to specifically think about local delegation

mechanisms, which are mechanisms where the decision

for voter i is based only

on the approved neighbors of voter i.

So it would look at the local neighborhood of i,

and make a decision based on which subset of the neighbors

are actually approved.

The motivation for this is that this is closer

to what we have in the real world today,

where voters make their own

delegation decisions independently,

only based on their local information.

So this would actually give the mechanism a bit more power

to make delegation decisions.

So examples of these kinds of mechanisms are delegate

to a uniformly random approved neighbor,

you know, don't delegate at all with probability 1/2

and delegate to a specific

approved neighbor with probability 1/2,

or even don't delegate at all.

Like if it says nobody ever delegates, that would just

coincide with direct democracy.

So what are the properties that we want

with a fine tune minimal properties that we

would want delegation mechanisms to satisfy?

The first is basically formalizing the property that

we had on the previous slide.

So we call it do no harm.

And slightly more formally, what it says is that

for any epsilon, the loss, which is the difference

between the probability of liquid, of direct democracy

making the right decision and the probability of liquid

democracy making the right decision, is at most

epsilon on all sufficiently large instances.

Or in other words, the loss would go to zero

as the instances grow larger.

Now this can be achieved if you never delegate.

If you just do direct democracy, because direct democracy

wouldn't lose to itself.

So to make things slightly less trivial, we introduce

another minimal property that's called positive gain

which just says that there are some examples

where liquid democracy actually

outperforms direct democracy.

So we can just do direct democracy.

And the negative result that I advertised before,

you know, basically says, that for any value of alpha,

the parameter that governs when we delegate,

the gap needed for delegation, there is no local

delegation mechanism that satisfies the do no

harm and the positive gain properties.

So there's no local mechanism that would satisfy

these two basic properties.

So the proof of this theorem has some details that requires

some calculations, but I think that the intuition

behind it is very simple.

So I want to try to illustrate the intuition to you

in a couple of minutes.

So the basic idea is that if you have a mechanism

satisfying, yeah.

- Looking at different instances, like the ability of

individual voters to get each of them right won't change?

- [Lecturer] I misheard the question.

- In a democracy, like, one of the problems was that

there too many things to decide about, and each individual

doesn't have the ability to think about all of them.

That means that when it comes to different things,

I have different ability to make the connections.

You're like the abilities should remain the same or?

- Right, so the question was, you know, basically

whether the competence levels

are different for different issues.

So all of this is done from the viewpoint of a single issue.

We're thinking about, we're fixing the issue,

and we're saying the competence levels are specific

to this issue.

There's another aspect, I think, of your question

which is, you know, why are we all measuring this

issue according to the same criterion.

Right, when we think about competence level, it's the idea

that we would make the right decision according

to a fixed criterion.

For that this is another assumption, but it's again

an assumption that helps look at democracy,

because we're all thinking about optimizing the same thing.

So it's again an assumption that only strengthens

this negative result.

Okay, so what's intuition here?

If we have the positive gain property, there must be

some neighborhood where delegation actually happens.

Right otherwise we would just be doing direct

democracy and would never be able to gain on any example.

So let's say that this is such a neighborhood.

And we're taking the viewpoint of the gray vertex.

Right, and here what you saying is the gray vertex has

three approved neighbors that are marked by dashed edges.

And one neighbor in the underlying

graph that is not approved...

Sorry, the solid edges are the approved neighbors.

The dashed edge is the neighbor in the underlying graph

which is not approved.

So what I'll do is I'll set competence levels

for the vertices that will

realize this approval relationship.

So we're going to have three high competence vertices

and two low competence vertices, including the one

whose viewpoint I'm taking.

And next, what I'll do is I'm going to take this

neighborhood and replicate it in a way that keeps the

same blue vertices, but replicates the green vertices.

So we got something like this.

And the crucial point is that from the viewpoint of each

one of the green vertices, the neighborhood looks exactly

the same as what we initially had.

So a local delegation mechanism would, you know,

have every green vertex delegate to the blue vertices

with some constant probability,

because that's where we started from.

Now in addition we're going to add the cloud of these

medium competence vertices that are disconnected

from everything else.

Setting their competence level is kind of tricky,

so it requires a bit of work

to even show that what we want is feasible.

But the way we do it is so that if everybody votes

independently under direct democracy, then getting

something close to the expected fraction of green

vertices to vote correctly is enough for the majority

vote to be correct.

On the other hand, the other liquid democracy,

like we said some fraction of the green vertices

delegate to the blue vertices.

Now without that fraction, the majority will be wrong

with high probability.

And in addition, now all of these blue vertices

have a lot of weight, and there's only a constant

number of them.

So with some constant probability

all of the vote incorrectly, and in that case the majority

decision is incorrect.

So what we get is that under liquid democracy, we have

a constant probability of making

an incorrect majority decision.

Under liquid democracy we have a correct decision

with high probability, and that creates this gap

that violates the do no harm property.

So what we see from this construction is that local

delegation mechanisms are inherently flawed,

because they can't identify situations where few

vertices amass a large number of votes.

Of course, with no local mechanisms,

we can get around this problem.

So one, you know, naive idea would be to define this

greedy cap mechanism that just says, you know,

let's greedily delegate votes according to what voters want,

but we'll set a cap on the weight that can be amassed

by any single voter, some caps given.

And then, you know, if you've already reached this cap,

we say you can't get any more delegations.

- So in the situation with representative democracy,

you really have, essentially, a situation, you have

this constant probability of having a bad situation,

because we only have a constant number of representatives.

And so, in some sense, it's a local mechanism where

those blue vertices are representatives

or potential representatives, really.

- Yeah, I agree.

So Paul's point was, you know, this kind of situation

can happen in representative democracy as well,

because we're correlating all of the weight

on our members of Parliament,

and there aren't that many of them.

And I agree.

So essentially with liquid democracy, the question,

or what we wanted to achieve, was designed delegation

mechanisms in a way that achieved, that circumvents

this kind of problem.

Right, so with representative democracy, we're stuck

in a pretty rigid system.

Here we have more flexibility in how we think

about when people delegate to others, people can vote

directly or delegate.

And it, you know, we were hoping that even with local

mechanisms, we could get around this kind of problem.

What the theorem tells us is that we can't actually

with local mechanisms.

Right, but however with non-local mechanisms, we

can get around this problem.

In particular, notice that we will avoid the situation

where that we have in representative democracy,

with a lot of weight on particular representatives.

And what we show is that under, another truly mild

assumption, if we set the cap correctly, then the

greedy cap mechanism would satisfy both the positive

gain and due no harm properties.

So the proof of this is very long.

I think there must be an easier way to prove it than we did.

And I don't want to go into the proof.

I do want to talk a bit

about the conceptual implications of this result.

So one interesting point is that people who have thought,

who have been thinking about liquid democracy, have

been really worried about this phenomenon where few

voters have amassed a large weight.

In particular in the German Pirate Party, this guy

was the superstar.

So he is a linguistics professor in Germany,

and he amassed so much weight that according to this

article in Der Spiegel, quote, "His vote was like a decree."

So basically, when he made a decision he would shift the

majority in the direction that he wanted.

And of course, you know, many people who are not this guy,

were unhappy about the situation

and thought that it's not democratic.

So of course greedy cap would get around this situation

by imposing this cap and preventing people

from amassing massive weight.

But what I want you to take from this part of the talk

is not that greedy cap is a great mechanism,

because that's not what I'm saying at all.

Remember that we only designed it to achieve two very

basic properties that are not very compelling

as a positive result.

And moreover we made assumptions

that really helped liquid democracy.

So what I want you to take away is actually the negative

result, the fact that local delegation mechanisms are

inherently flawed and that centralized delegation

decisions could be the next step

for effective liquid democracy systems.

In our ongoing work, we've been thinking

about, you know, how to design centralized delegation

mechanisms from an algorithmic perspective.

And that's something I'll be happy to talk about offline.

Yeah?

- The fact that the edges in the underlying graph are

zero one, they either exist or they don't seems like a

dramatically simplifying assumption, you know.

I know you or I don't.

In particular relevant to centralized delegations.

Do you have thoughts on this?

- Yeah, I mean, I don't view it as a dramatic,

that particular assumption as being dramatic.

So it, essentially what we're saying is I can only,

you know, I can only delegate to j if I know j.

So he knows of the existence of j and like could

potentially delegate to...

- If I think of it as I'm allowed to delegate.

- Exactly, exactly so I just think of it as, like,

part of the necessary condition for delegation together

with the, this gap in competence, right.

Yeah, Pedro.

- I think the basic motivation for liquid democracy isn't

necessarily that the representatives will make better

decisions is that people just don't have time.

So there seems like there's a very important thing

missing here which is like, yes, you know, liquid

democracy will be worse than direct democracy,

but we would have to offset against the gain that,

you know, people that way have looked.

Otherwise they might not even vote.

- Right, so the way I think about it is, you know,

people not having time translates to a low competence level.

If you have made them make, you know, make a choice

then they wouldn't be well informed

and would make a right choice with low probability.

And for that reason, you know, when we, when we delegate,

like we would expect things to be better.

At least like initially, we were hoping for things

to be better under liquid democracy.

So I think, you know, ideally liquid democracy

should get around this problem of low competence

by allowing delegation to more competent people

and that's what this negative result is trying to capture.

- For the sake of the role and point of comparison,

or current representative democracy

and not direct democracy.

- Right, so as Paul was pointing out, I mean the

question was about comparison to current representative

democracy, as Paul was pointing out, the kind of issue I was

talking about, when you think about it in this mathematical

model is also an issue in current representative democracy,

where we're focusing a lot of weight on this like

small number of representatives

that could make wrong decisions.

- What I mean though is that, as far as the theoretical

results, it might be worse than direct democracy

but better than representative democracy.

- Oh I see, right.

So that's a good point.

Well I guess you would need like a completely different

model for, you know, if you wanted to think

about, you know, instead of just saying we have these

representatives and the graph structure is like this,

trying to model what representative democracy looks like

and when it's likely to be successful.

This model wouldn't give you that.

The reason why we're comparing to direct democracy

is because of the feeling that this is essentially

in some sense the ideal weight, where everybody's

participating, and this is, and this is what we

would have been doing if we didn't have this problem

of low competence levels.

Right, so, so the motivation is coming from the fact

that we would want direct democracy.

It doesn't scale because of low competence levels.

Therefore we allow for delegation to overcome the

idea that, the problem that some voters might have

lower competence, and they want to give their vote

to more competent voters.

And then we're just saying this may not necessarily work

unless you're careful about how you do the delegations.

- In having the cap like log in would mean they're should

be a substantially large number of the population who

have good competence, like, cause if I have a very limited

number of people with good competence available,

then we can't impose that gap.

- Right, that's a good point.

So what you're saying is, you know, there could be

situations where we do have a very small, maybe even a star,

where the center has competence one.

In that case I would want to delegate to the center,

but now I'm, I'm, you know, I'm prevented

by this cap, and I would get the wrong decision.

So that's true.

I mean we are taking this very specific viewpoint of

comparing to direct democracy, and from that viewpoint

like that's our benchmark.

That's what we're trying to compete with.

You're absolutely right that in some examples, of course,

you know we would want to remove the cap.

And if we wanted to compare, you know, just allowing

everybody to delegate without a cap to a cap,

we could be doing worse with a cap on some examples.

Right, so that's definitely true.

Cool, so let's move on and talk

about participatory budgeting.

So this is joint work

with Gerdus Benade, Swaprava Nath, and Nisarg Shah.

And as I mentioned briefly, the idea in participatory

budgeting is that typically a city want to allocate part of

its budget according to the wishes of its residents.

So people would express their preferences.

And we would aggregate those preferences to get a decision.

So for example, the kind of things people talk about are

building some community center, building even a stadium,

building park, a bike lane, and so on.

These are the kinds of projects people would vote

on in many of these situations.

So the origin of this idea dates back to the city of

Porto Alegre in Brazil in 1989, so almost 30 years ago.

So they kind of lost their minds and decided to allocate

the entire city budget using participatory budgeting.

And this has been a very successful experiment

by many measures.

So you know there is a lot of work in social science

trying to understand did the

city improve based on that.

And the answer, from what I gather, is yes

according to many different measures.

So this was really the first example, but over the years,

and especially recently this idea has

really been catching on.

So for example, as far as I know, the world champion

is Paris which in 2016 had a hundred million euro

participatory budgeting election and committed 500 million

euro by 2020.

Another example that we will come back to is Madrid

that had a 24 million euro participatory budgeting

election two years ago.

In the US, New York City, for example, had a $40 million

participatory budgeting election last year.

And I just looked up Seattle that seems to have a $3

million participatory budgeting election this year.

So it's not like a huge fraction of the budget.

But it is a sizeable commitment.

And really the feeling is that the commitment

to participatory budgeting is really growing very fast

in more and more cities.

And also cities are expanding their level of commitment.

So again I want to think in a rigorous model

about how to do participatory budgeting.

You know, what's the right way to approach it?

So in this model we're going to have a set of voters

that are voting over a set A of m alternatives.

The total budget is some capital B.

And every alternative a has a cost c sub a.

Now every voter i has a utility ui of a for alternative a

that measures the benefit that voter i derives if we

implement alternative a as part of our set of

implemented alternative one of the projects.

Now for a subset of alternatives x, the cost of x,

the total cost is, of course, the sum over individual

cost of projects in the subset.

I'm also going to make the assumption that the utility

i has for subset x is the sum of individual utilities.

Now I think, this is often a strong assumption,

the tivity of utilities.

But here I think it's well justified, because if you look

at many of these real world cases, the projects

are basically independent of each other.

So there are almost no substitutes or complimentarities

and the tivity kind of makes sense.

Now the goal is to find a subset of alternatives x

that maximizes what's called utilitarian social welfare.

So it's denoted using this notation, social welfare of

the subset x for the utility profile u.

So this is the sum over all voters of the utility i has

for the subset x, the total utility derived by the voters,

subject to the budget constraints.

We want a budget feasible subset.

So this is the goal as defined

by Ashish Goel from Stanford and his team.

They've done very interesting work on both the

theory and the practice of participatory budgeting.

I'll tell you a bit more about some of their ideas later.

But, you know, I guess for many of you as you are

staring at this goal, what you are thinking is this is

just a knapsack problem, where our alternatives are items,

the weight of an item is the cost of the project.

And the value of an item is the total utility

to all of the different voters.

So knapsack is an np hard problem,

but it's pretty easy in practice.

The main obstacle is that we don't actually have

access to these utility functions.

Right we can't really go around asking people, you know,

what's your utility for every alternative,

especially when you think about some of these real

elections where in the final stage we have like, you know,

up to 100 final projects, this would be

very difficult for voters.

So what instead happens in practice is that we ask voters

to express their preferences using some kind of input format

which is a format for their votes, and we aggregate these

votes in order to make a decision

about which subset to fund.

So what I want to do is tell you about a couple of input

formats that people have been talking about.

And I'll do it in the context of this imaginary city,

with a couple of imaginary alternatives.

And I'm also going to take the

viewpoint of one particular voter.

So when I talk about utility, it's going to be

from the viewpoint of one voter.

And I'll show you how this voter maps her utilities

into votes in different formats.

So, one possible alternative is building a town square

which has utility eight to this one voter and costs nine.

We could build a bike lane with utility two and cost one.

We could build a park with utility three and cost two.

Or we could invest in clean energy.

This has utility six and cost six.

Now one natural, you know, way in which to express

preferences is just to sort the alternatives

by order of utility.

So this is called ranking by value which would be

ranking by utility in our case.

And this would put the tunnel square first,

then clean energy, then the park, and then the bike lane.

Now another option suggested by Ashish Goel

and his collaborators is looking at value for money

which is the ratio of utility and cost.

In our case, this would give the opposite ranking

where the bike lane would be first with a ratio of two.

Then the park with a ratio of 1 1/2 and so on.

Now the input format that Ashish and his group are

actually advocating is something they call knapsack voting.

In Europe it's been used independently.

For example, in the Madrid election that we talked

about, they think of it as shopping cart votes.

But the idea is that we just ask every voter

to solve their personal knapsack problem.

So we tell them, you know, here's the budget,

give me the subset of project that's best for you

under the budget constraint.

So for example, here if the budget is nine,

then our voter would take three of the projects,

the energy, the park, and bike lane.

Together they have a total cost of nine

which matches the budget.

And of course, you can do better with a budget of nine.

Now the last input format is something that we advocate

in our paper.

We call it threshold approval.

And the idea is that I'm going to ask every voter

to either approve or not approve a project.

And the voter should approve a project, or check it,

if its utility is above a given threshold.

So for example, if I set the threshold at five,

then my voter would approve the town square and clean energy

and would not approve the other alternatives.

So hopefully these all seem like reasonable, yeah...

- So but the cost is a negative utility so what I would have

done is rank by difference between utility and cost.

- Cost is the amount of money needed to build a project.

- Yeah, so spending money has negative utility.

- So what's your proposal?

- By some, let's say the simplest version is the

difference of the utility.

- Oh difference, yeah, so this is sort of been captured

by ranking by value for money which looks at the ratio.

Right, so here if...

Okay, sure, I mean, so this is a definitely valid idea.

It's not something that, to my knowledge,

anybody has looked at.

I think it's, it's more natural psychologically

to think about ranking by value for money,

because essentially what you would tell voters is what's

your bang for buck.

Right, whereas if you look at the difference,

you know, without having any evidence for this, it feels

to me like something it would be more difficult

to express and think about.

But it's, you know, it's definitely a valid idea that

will again capture the tension

between higher utility and lower cost.

Okay, so, so hopefully these all

seem like reasonable input formats.

And, you know, the question is which one should we use.

So the main conceptual contribution of our work

is giving an objective way

in which we can compare different input formats.

The way we do this is by relying on a framework

that I've been calling implicit

utilitarian voting in recent years.

So one idea at its basis is the idea that every voter i

would report a vote sigma i that is consistent

with her utility function ui.

And consistency is exactly what we saw

in the previous slide, where you can take utility

function and map it.

It induces some kind of vote in a given input format.

So we're going to denote it using this triangle notation.

Right, so we want to look at randomized voting rules

that take as input an input profile of vector votes.

And map it to a budget feasible

subset of alternatives possibly at random.

The main definition here is this definition of distortion

which dates back to work of mine with my Phd advisor

Jeff Rosenschein in 2006.

What it's trying to capture is the idea that we

want to maximize utilitarian social welfare,

but we don't have access to the utilities.

So instead we use the votes as a proxy for the utilities.

And what this is trying to capture is how much we lose

because of this lack of information.

So formally, the distortion of voting rule f

on an input profile sigma is the ratio between the

social welfare of the optimal solution, the one that

optimize social welfare among the budget feasible subsets.

And then in the denominator we have the social welfare

that we're getting when we apply our voting rule

to the input profile sigma.

Now notice that both of these are measured according

to some utility profile.

What's the utility profile?

It's going to be the worst case over all utility profiles

that are consistent with the observables.

Right, for anything that our voting rule does,

we ask how badly can it do compared to the optimal solution

according to the worst utilities consistent

with what we saw.

So as advertised, this definition allows us to

objectively compare different input formats

by associating an input format

with the worst case distortion of the best voting rule.

What do I mean by that?

For every possible input profile, I take the voting rule

that optimizes this distortion.

That's going to be the best voting rule.

And you can define it on every input profile separately

for a given input format.

And then I look at the worst case.

What's the worst case?

It's the worst case over

all possible vectors of observables,

all possible input profiles.

So what this is inherently capturing is how useful

the information encoded in the input format is

for optimizing social welfare in the worst case.

And the theoretical results in the paper focus

on giving bounds on the distortion associated

with different input formats.

So here are the results on a high level.

The candidates are the four input formats we talked about,

ranking by value, ranking by value for money,

knapsack voting, and threshold approval.

And what we show is that for ranking by value,

the distortion is order square root of m,

and similarly for ranking by value for money.

For knapsack voting, the distortion is much worse.

It's order of m.

And this is really horrible, because you can get an upper

bound of m on distortion

by choosing a single alternative uniformly at random.

So this is basically saying that the information encoded

in knapsack vote is completely useless

for this objective of optimizing social welfare.

And in this competition by far the leader is threshold

approval where the distortion is only logarithmic

in log squared of m.

So this says that this information intuitively is

much more useful for optimizing social welfare.

Now a really nice aspect of these theoretical results is

that they're also very good predictors

about what happens in the average case.

So here are some results in the average case.

What we did here is we got real data,

generously given to us by Ashish Goel and his group.

So the data is from elections that they ran in Boston

in 2015 and 16.

Each one of them has a couple of thousand votes.

And we took the real alternatives, the real costs

of the alternatives, and the real votes,

and from the votes we extrapolated random utility

profiles that are consistent with those votes.

So this is where things are random.

And then once we have the utilities, we can translate

them into any input format that we want

and apply different aggregation methods

and see how well the set of alternatives that we get is

compared to the optimal solution on the input for,

on the utility profile that we drew.

So this is what we refer to as average welfare ratio.

You know, just this, the equivalent of distortion

in this average case.

And I want to show you, like a couple of things

on this, in this graph.

It's one thing to note is that the four leaders here

are the four input formats coupled with the optimal

deterministic distortion minimizing aggregation method,

the optimal voting rule.

And what you can see is that they're sorted in the same way

that we had them sorted in the theoretical results,

with threshold approval first, then ranking

by value for money, ranking by value, and knapsack.

Another thing that's interesting is this thing

over here, greedy knapsack.

So this is what was used, for example,

in the Madrid election that I mentioned.

What they do is they do knapsack voting,

which they call shopping cart votes, and then

to aggregate those votes, what they say is every time a

voter puts an alternative in their subset,

they give that alternative one point.

And then we just sort the alternatives by the number

of points and greedily try to stick them into the budget

until we run out of budget.

So what you can see is that even in the average case,

this is doing significantly worse than these

methods designed for the worst case.

So the take home message from this part is that

threshold approval coupled with optimal distortion

based aggregation stands out

as a promising approach for participatory budgeting.

Nevertheless, the jury is very much still out,

even the jury inside my head for various reasons,

one is that if we go back to thinking

about the cognitive burden voters and how difficult it is

for voters to understand what we want from them,

threshold approval is quite difficult to explain.

So we actually have some ongoing human subject experiments

with collaborators in Israel trying to understand, like

how well this works when you actually get people

to express their preferences in this format.

But it's clear that it's not something that's

easy to express to people.

Another issue is that there are other completely different

approaches that we have just started thinking

about, where if some theoretical conjectures are true,

this would give a really compelling

alternative to this approach.

So like I said, you know, this is very much

work in progress.

I feel like really the jury is still out.

But I think this points the way

to some promising directions.

Yeah.

- Suppose we have a certain number of input formats

and how well they do, but ideally what we'd like

to answer is the question what is

the optimum of good format.

Are they all possible?

- Yeah, that's a great question.

So, the question was what's the optimal input format.

And I think to make it a bit more precise, you would need

to ask, or at least like the way I think about it,

is what's the optimal input format if I allow you

some bound on communication for example.

So that's something that we have actually been thinking

about, and we have some results.

But one caveat is that if you, you know, in this case

we have to care about the human aspect of it as well.

So many of these input formats that give you optimal

results or something that would be completely unintelligible

to a person, right.

So there is a, that issue, where even if we optimize this

measure theoretically,

we might do really badly in that respect.

So let me move on to the third part of

the talk, virtual democracy.

So this is based on joint work with my student,

Ritesh Noothigattu, my colleague in the CMU machine learning

department, Pradeep Ravikumar, and a team of collaborators

at the MIT media lab, led by Iyad Rahwan.

So the starting point is this website created

by our MIT collaborators called Moral Machine,

where they tried to understand how people behaved

in the modern incarnation of the classic trolley problem.

So here the idea is that you have an autonomous vehicle

that gets into an inevitable accident.

Let's say it has a catastrophic brake failure.

And some people will inevitably die, and you have to

make the grim decision who to kill and whom to save.

So here's an example dilemma that

a human visitor might face.

You know, a user of this website.

So, you know, one option is driving straight

and killing the pedestrians.

And the pedestrians were crossing on a red light,

and there's one overweight man, one male doctor,

and one baby, or the car can swerve, you know,

take an active action, run into this road block

and kill off the passengers.

And you can get all the relevant information

about the passengers.

The one interesting thing about this particular dilemma

is that if you look at the car, you can see that there

is a baby in the driver's seat of the car,

which kind of makes sense,

because it's an autonomous vehicle.

So, you know, there could be a baby there.

But by the same logic, this must be an autonomous stroller,

because nobody is actually pushing it.

(audience laughs)

And if you thought, like, this dilemma is wacky,

look at this one where we have this daring escape

from the animal shelter with five animals

in the car, and we have to choose between the

animals and the people.

So most people are biased towards their own species

and would choose to save the people over the animals.

So this is a slightly easier dilemma.

But, you know, so this is the type of dilemma they've

shown to people, and like I said their purpose was

to understand how people make this type of decisions.

They've been very, very successful at collecting data.

So at the time of our collaboration, they had more

than 18 million pairwise comparisons

for more than 1.3 million voters.

Right now they have more than 40 million

pairwise comparisons, so even more.

And they, the starting point for our project was

the realization that this vast treasure trove of data

can actually be used to automate this type of decisions

and not just to understand how people make them.

So this has led to this, you know, this framework that we're

proposing for automating this type of decisions.

It has four steps.

So the first step is data collection, basically asking

people for pairwise comparisons,

on the dilemmas that we care about.

The second step is learning.

So here we would learn a model for each voter based

on this, these pairwise comparisons we collected

which will allow us to predict what they would

want on dilemmas that we haven't seen before.

The third step is summarization.

So here the idea is that we are going to have

to make decisions in a split second in running time,

and we want to take all of these individual models

and summarize them as one concise

model of societal preferences.

And finally, aggregation happens at one time.

So we're facing a particular set of alternatives

that are the ones available right now.

And the idea is we'll instantiate our model of societal

preferences for the current alternatives.

And we'll aggregate this model using ideas

from social choice to get, you know, social choice

for virtual voters that will be the choice of our algorithm.

So, you know, what we did in our work was we

instantiated this approach for the autonomous

vehicle domain using a couple of specific design choices.

And this has led to an implemented system that can make

decisions in this autonomous vehicle domain.

So I want to tell you in a few minutes about, you know,

what this instantiation of the approach looks like.

So the first step is data collection.

This was already done by our MIT collaborators,

like I said, collected the whole, the whole bunch of data.

The second step is learning.

So here we use a model for preferences called

the Thurstone-Mosteller Model or the Thurstone Model Five.

There's no novelty here.

This is off the shelf.

The idea is that every voter has some

mean utility for each alternative.

And to compare alternative, or to give a ranking,

the voter will draw a sample from a normal distribution

around each mean and would sort the alternatives

in the order of those samples.

So for example here, I might draw sample for the red

alternative, one for the blue and one for the orange,

and then I would sort those alternatives

in this order and it would give me blue

above orange above red,

even though the orange mean is larger than the blue mean.

Right, now what are the means?

So we take a linear parametrization.

The mean is the dot product of a parameter vector

beta for this voter and the feature vector xi.

So for example moral machine, there are 23 features.

So it's things like are we looking at pedestrians

or passengers, if pedestrians are they crossing

on a red light or on a green light.

Are we taking an active action

by swerving or going straight,

information about the character types, you know,

which characters we have in this dilemma, and so on.

Right, and the parameter vector beta is

what we're trying to learn.

Now, for step three, at the end of step two,

we've learned these 1.3 million Thurstone-Mosteller Models

represented by these vectors of parameters

beta one to beta n.

And now we do something very naive.

Okay, so we come up with one Thurstone-Mosteller Model

for society, where the parameter vector is just the

average of all of these individual parameter vectors.

So we have some theory that says that this is a

reasonable thing to do.

But I think the main justification will be

the empirical results that I'll show you in two slides.

Okay, so step four is actually where almost all of our

technical work goes into in the paper

and most of the innovation.

So here we now have one summary Thurstone-Mosteller Model

for society, and at one time we're given this particular

subset of alternatives x one to x n.

Our model for society, given those alternatives,

would induce what's called an anonymous preference profile

which you can think of as the predicted fraction of voters

that are associated with any particular

ranking over these alternatives.

Now this is a type of an input that you can feed

into most common voting rules.

It's called an anonymous preference profile.

However, there are two major questions here,

one is how do we do this very fast.

How do we apply the voting rule very fast,

because like I said, we may need to make decisions

in a split second?

And the second is which voting rule to use,

because over centuries people have talked about many

different voting rules, which one is the most ethical.

Now we answered these questions

in some generality in the paper.

I just want to show you a special case of the theorem

for the instantiation that I told you about.

So the theorem would say that for any voting rule

that satisfies two basic properties, monotonicity

and neutrality, it would select an alternative that just

maximizes the dot product of the average

beta vector and the feature vector.

So this is great news, because one thing is that it's,

you know, something that's very easy to compute.

It can be computed in a split second.

And second, you know, this says that we don't need

to worry too much about the choice of voting rule,

because most common voting rules satisfy

these two basic properties, and this says all of them

would agree on the outcome.

Yeah.

- The justification for these three things is a little

weak, because most of the time we're not going

to be facing a split second decisions

and also we can do a lot more efficiently than just

going through every one of the millions of votes.

- Right, so in this domain the type of decisions

we care about is when you get in an accident, you know,

who do you kill.

So these will all be split second decisions,

and particular for this domain, you know,

this does seem completely crucial.

You're right that it wouldn't be crucial in every domain.

There is an issue of computational complexity.

So even if it's not a split second, there are very hard

computational problems lurking behind the scenes here,

especially if you have many models.

Essentially, to make a decision, you have to unpack

all of those models and apply and a voting rule to that.

So even if you have, you know, even if you're in some

environment where there is some dynamic interaction,

and I'll give a few examples later, it could still be

to complicated if you don't have a concise model.

So it really depends on the setting.

Like in some others it may be okay.

And in fact, one of the settings I'll talk

about in a minute, does have the property that we're not

worried about summarization, and we actually don't

do that as part of the approach.

Okay, so let me just show you a couple of empirical results.

So this graph pertains specifically to the accuracy of the

summarization step which I promised to tell

you a bit about.

And what we're doing is we're looking at these 1.3 million

models that we've learned.

In one world, we're taking a random subset of alternatives,

instantiating it in all of these different models,

and then applying a common voting rule called verda

and looking at which alternative won.

In the second world, we do the same thing but

on the one summarized Thurstone-Mosteller Model, right,

this naive average thing.

And what we want to see is what's the probability

these two things coincide.

That would be the accuracy of our summarization.

So what we're seeing here is accuracy is on the y-axis,

the number of alternatives is on the x-axis.

And even with 10 alternatives, the base line of

a random guess would be 10%,

but still we're getting 95.1% accuracy.

And you can see the accuracy degrades very slowly.

So this says, you know, at least in this instantiation

naive summarization works well.

That said, I think there's still a lot more work to do here.

There are very interesting technical questions

about how to do summarization more cleverly.

And also it may well be the case that this kind of thing

doesn't carry over to other domains.

Right, so I'm not saying this is the final word

on summarization, but at least for this particular

application, it does pretty well.

So as I mentioned, I think one thing that's exciting

about this approach is that it applies not only

to autonomous vehicles, but to many other domains.

So one example is kidney exchange.

That's a domain that I've actually worked in quite a bit,

but in a different context.

There's a recent paper by researchers from Maryland

and Duke where they take, you know, independently

propose related but distinct approach,

based on social choice and machine learning.

And what they want to do is, you know, we're trying

to find matchings between donors and patients.

And there, they want to break ties automatically

between matchings of equal cardinality based

on some automated prioritization of, of

specific patients, given by preferences reported by people.

So I think that's one exciting example.

Another example that we've been working on,

and this is where I alluded to summarization not being

a big issue, is a food bank domain.

So we've been working with an organization in Pittsburgh

called 412 Food Rescue.

This is a collaboration

with a colleague of mine, Mingh Kung Lee,

whose been working with them for years.

And the idea is that they initially approach men

in order to build an algorithm that would automate

the relocation decisions of incoming

food donations to recipients.

And what we are doing is applying an approach building

on the one that I told you about in order

to automate these decisions in a way that is

ethical, fair, and also efficient to some degree.

So right now we're actually, right now at the stage

of collecting preferences

from stakeholders in this organization,

you know, donors recipients, managers and volunteers.

But really I think the same kind of approach would

be applicable in many settings where you have some AI

and some degree of ethical decision making.

So the take home message from this part of the talk

is that we have built a system that I think serves

as a proof of concept.

That it's possible to automatically decide ethical dilemmas

without formal specification of

ground truth ethical principles.

And I'm emphasizing this last part, because I feel like

that's been the main barrier to doing this kind of thing,

the fact that philosophers have not given us

a specification of ground truth ethical principles

that we can then encode into our algorithms.

So this approach is obviously practical.

And I feel like it gives a way of making credible

decisions, especially when you think about the number of

opinions that are involved,

you know 1.3 million in our case.

Or at the very least, common sense decisions in this

domain that is incredibly tricky for AI.

So to wrap up let me revisit my overview

slide one last time.

So we talked about liquid democracy.

We talked about participatory budgeting.

We talked about virtual democracy.

I've shown you results that I think of as relatively

preliminary in all of these areas, but I do feel

they point the way in promising directions.

And I hope you'll leave the talk with the feeling that

the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,

in the sense that, you know, these are processes

that are happening in the world right now.

And we can really play a role I think, as computer

scientists in thinking

about the evolution of these different pardigms.

And I really feel like the time to do that is now

before various heuristics become ingrained and while

we still have a chance to, sort of take a scientific

viewpoint on shaping these different ideas

and even to some degree helping think

about the future of democracy.

Thanks a lot.

(audience applauds)

- [Anna] So maybe just one or two questions.

- So why not use virtual democracy for everything?

Instead of liquid democracy, instead of participatory

budgeting, if the models are good then we're done?

- Yeah, that's a great question.

So the question is why not use

virtual democracy for everything.

So, you know, this is, I feel like, there are some

inaccuracies that you would inevitably get when you

take this approach of machine learning.

You know, we have various other results that say

how accurate is the learning step and so on.

So obviously this leads to some sacrifice

and some inaccuracy in how you present preferences.

So I feel like the trade off is only worth it when

there are issues like you need to make decisions

in a split second.

You know, you have a car.

Or in the case of 412 Food Rescue, you're just at a stage

where they have scaled to the size, where they just get

so many donations they can't handle them all.

The equivalent of this approach would be to say,

every time a donation comes in, get everybody together,

the donors, the recipients, the managers and so on,

have everybody vote on where we should give the

current donation and aggregate those preferences.

Right, so in situations like that,

that's not something that's realistic.

Whereas this kind of approach does give us some way of, you

know, making these decisions.

- I thought it would be represented by a model of me

than by a representative who has, you know,

that I have an agency problem with.

- Oh I see.

So you're thinking of replacing representative

democracy with this.

I'm not going to argue with you, like I, you know,

I feel like our representatives often do

suffer from significant problems and we can definitely...

In fact I'm not going to argue this point.

- [Anna] Okay one more question.

- A bit more devil's advocate than that.

It seems like a lot of the time democracy isn't

for like social welfare.

It's to prevent like disastrous situations.

So I think about, like, you know, this liquid democracy.

My impression is this, if you go to like the corporate

world and all these stakeholder voting trusts,

or whatever, like, it seems like you could try things

there, but the reason they don't allow transfer votes

is primarily for robustness.

And it seems like, that there's this sort of major

tension once you have, like, rational agents,

because, like, throughout this there's this major

part that we're rational agents here,

and this thought very much,

like it just a maximization problem.

Once we have rational agents, it seems like

everything is a mess.

- Right, right so just to, you know rephrase,

the point is, you know, we often in democracy want

to make decisions in a way that would, for example,

prevent extreme situations.

And one phenomenon we might be worried about, for example,

is what's called tyranny of the majority,

where we have a lot of incompetent people, whereas

we could have had a few competent representatives

that would have made the right decision.

So, you know, this is definitely a flaw

for democracy in general.

We get this flaw also potentially when we choose

representatives or other office holders.

So I feel like it's very hard to overcome, or like

completely escape, these flaws of democracy if you do

any kind of democracy.

And I think what I'm doing here is taking a very

positive viewpoint of democracy, in the sense that

you know also when I'm thinking about virtual democracy

and participatory budgeting you could also say

why do you want the citizens to make those kinds of

decisions, even though we do have some positive evidence.

So I'm taking a very positive viewpoint in that

democracy definitely has its flaws, but it often works well.

And I'm a big believer in the fact that it does

work well overall,

and usually gives us pretty reasonable solutions.

I agree with you that if we did want to implement

direct democracy or liquid democracy, you know something

that is more direct, we would probably need

some additional safeguards in place.

So this approach wouldn't directly address that.

But you could think about doing liquid democracy

according to approaches that will build on some of the stuff

we talked about, and in addition putting

some additional safeguards in place.

For example, giving veto power to particular people.

Actually, i feel like, you know, dealing with this issue

could arguably be orthogonal

to some of the issues we talked about.

- [Anna] Okay well let's thank Ariel

(audience applauds) and take more questions...

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we have the coverage parent it was insane

there's like three just healthy animal jobs whenever the Maria hit the Virgin

Islands my best friend was down there and she survived hermana and Maria and I

had one a category-5 owned by the time of it

herm had already had the other islands down there so they had sent off for

their supplies the other islands hit them that we left everybody this is

Angela Tristan all the way out of the UK being called collateral I got to tell

you I was just saying - you're selling midnight green y'all want a voice first

of all that's what I was listening to the e acoustic unplugged version that

was a little of penny trapper song The Ballad refers them in any way you know

definitely not rustic is that I dunno it expects you oh yes with the only people

that use mine crops no not only I'm just long your oak dog over here I guess my

nose really stuck with it being normal like you know yeah I'd rather just go

all in so you guys had a new song a video come out problem and I clean

correct yeah yeah and that's the song I just listened to you for everybody

listening and watching it's awesome I haven't

the full version with the band just the acoustic but yeah I think early allows

listen like 17 seconds seconds and song on via websites it's on and it's on our

Facebook page and on our names okay yeah that's I didn't see no YouTube page but

I did go to the website and I tried to scroll like about the band as far as

something you should tell about because when you go to scroll over it shall read

it it goes back yeah I just spoke to live huzzah you know and she's at the

moment just renovating the page so there's a few little problems that are

going to be sorted out with the next hour or so

yeah I knew one of the one of the other things on your page didn't work at all

the sick words yeah yeah these are the moment she's really redoing the whole

website and to coincide with release stuff so this it's still live it's

really it means that there's a few pages that aren't working at the moment and

that that will be up and running of the next day or two I had say the graphics

in the art were incredible yeah there's a guy I'm sure he helps us out before

illustrations down the road from us he's amazing actually amazing yeah I can tell

and I was a private fund it really really interesting that your journalist

EP as like a story line about a character okay yeah well this is this is

kind of where you know the label wanted to release a single for the EP that she

they asked they also be too bright more of a kind of pop country sort of star

song stars are okay I got this got down to it and I was writing from a point of

view of from a female's point of view because I said to myself you know if we

could make the song love song right perspective

just a little bit more interesting to try and write from a different point of

view altogether so we did that and you know it now it just rings out to so

many people and when the director of the music video I came up to him he here a

sovereign who is one with the idea of use it mid my queen my queen as a

character in the story why is it you know what it's quite this very

surprising video honestly in the trailer you don't actually see what happens you

look watch the music video and it kind of turns it turns very very a mythical

I've been fighting game at their own question why is it you like vampires

you love them yes I'm definitely gonna have to try to find it because I was

looking for it and I didn't think to put internet media I mean you guys describe

yourself as a little bit rock and a little bit country

yeah yeah well I'm I'm influenced by the evils my mum is the plain Eagles while

she's you know tidied up in the house when I was much younger so I kind of got

drilled into me the whole laid-back feel that the evils brought you know this

song right as well which is second to none and then I really start getting to

music when I heard one joke I heard it on a prayer and I was like that's it

that's what I want to do I'm gonna create this really weird yeah

country rock but I wondering the evils you put them together

now that's an interesting of duo I was in the hospital there anymore like

modern-day influences that you have this what are they do you know what

hi there is none I gotta come I can't sit down and listen to the radio now and

today the new releases and new bands because it's just all the same old stuff

you know painted the same on four chords I just yeah that's like Skid Row and you

know muddy crew people like that that's who we we can interest you know

considered maybe covering like the Bon Jovi song online maybe plays like

warriors Wow ladies a glory Wow yeah you know we actually do cover a couple for

charity checks on live shows just we need to you know like Dead or Alive and

you give love a bad name sounds like that so I mean yeah we we kind of tend

to stray away from doing the covers because we were much more of an original

spend so but you know when it comes to little crowd want a bit of cover then

you know chuck them did or like so like that just to kind of keep them happy

that always comes in handy I figured that out much and the Foo Fighters never

believing my eyes when I saw John Travolta and Billy

process that in your brain you're like come on it's like I have to make in real

life right now yeah yeah just keep the audience on your toes that's that's how

you kind of have a long-lasting you know relationship of your fans and a lot loss

in career you need to keep them on their toes you know you can't be doing the

same old stuff everything to learn that a lot of stuff yeah yeah that's very

well set and I wish my hands would go back for that because music was simple

back there just because there's Simon Says didn't support words they can still

be played differently yeah exactly I mean yeah of course you know I never

expected quoting and people like that it was it was you know three chords but the

character in the song right because you had to you know you didn't nowadays a

song has one lyric throughout the whole song and it's got about 50 different

producers and 15 different writers of 50 different you know whatever the back

then you know my queen Freddie Mercury perhaps it in this one right up one

singer one producer thanks you know that one of the biggest hits in the world now

now it's just so easy it's hard for me to understand how bands with singers

there's your speakers don't write the lyrics it's weird yeah well I guess how

can you know yeah someone else's words as powerfully as you would feel your own

I just don't this is what we call their it's like

kind of puppet industry you know so you've got well this white coat anyway

like Justin Bieber is just nothing but a puppet he gets told what to do and then

you know he just goes out in front of some sheep and sings what doesn't see

Mugsy space is not that puppeting is some this it's absolutely ridiculous

that music has that's so sad it's actually better for

the Arctic's yeah yeah bobbing instead a spark I think since 2000 here and you

know technology and music group a it meant that a lot more people could

create music a lot easier to write songs we're not to write songs but to compose

songs because on the computer now the computer does it all for you right

there's a lot easier to be in a band or to be a fright a singer-songwriter

because you know you've got software that makes you sound you're not ready

and you don't know how to stay on pitch why are you wasting your money on studio

or with necklaces or anything else because I don't leave it on a dime or

whatever is ahead stuff if I go into a studio I'm going ahead to try to do it

in one take that can be done it can be part yeah but if you can see well you

can play music then you should be able to do in one take back and you just a

memory it's muscle memory I don't know it's practice it's really just that

simple take a keyboard match of it yeah whatever it takes you know to do is turn

that TV sober to get the job done and then a day but a lot of people are very

lazy these days and think it's very it's very easy but you know the you know in

music where you just came alive you had to be good at it if you make in the

studio and you mess the studio's time up you know they're - you - yeah I don't

blame I because I mean that's their time and that's the one thing none of us can

get back so if I waste any of it so for all you guys that actually do use all

that stuff please forget about folks it's good shot another reaction or just

oh you know just yeah exactly just practice every day know that your

crop I have a roll out keyboard that literally falls because it's rubber and

you later and you can put it on 99 different

talents of instruments and you just sit there do your news and Ellison laws and

it's never gonna be a bitch because you're trying so it really is just a

matter of muscle memory and the ladies at practice I use my practice we can

tell with your practice yeah people nowadays you know if you've got a dream

to be a musician some people you know some people are born with more of a

natural tone and a lot of other people it's a little harder for them to get in

a position where they could essentially you know be as good as other people but

you know this point to have a dream and stuff but just make it you know would

you rather succeed knowing that you did did you all when your best or succeed

knowing that you know you you kind of half-assed your way through life it's

kind of that sort of thing you know you want to be fulfilling in your

achievements I mean I can't agree more with anything that you're saying and

look as it's actually very wise words and I think a lot of young bands out

there indeed because they need to hear the truth I am

one of those people who will be nice and say nice things when because I don't

mind hurting their feelings at that at this point they need to be told what the

truth is no that's so that's one thing that makes you a bit musician is you

know you can tell you the bad stuff about you that's what you learn from if

you are constantly told by people they're so good you're so good you know

what my god you know then you will never progress as a musician and as a person

so it's it's very important that you heat that bad pieces because that's the

only thing that can make about saying people are scared there is a

constructive way that I can be critical without the meaning and hopefully they

will understand that I mean no harm it's just this is only my opinion but I've

played it and I've sing it I taught it I've been you know from radio to this to

love it you know music industry probably done so yeah

let's don't do that first I'm a fan we all do and of course don't player all my

life so I mean being classically trained with an instrument I mean and then

falling in love with rock mineralogist back in the day in the late nineties

when Kendall laughs and gasps back there just coming in hot

all these killer Seattle band so yeah yeah but we should hopefully next year

should be efficient landing I don't see how or as a there we look there's so

many big things happening mix it was bad I'm losing track but it is an economy

but where we're going I think it might be see how well we do say what's up to

your there but second I mean I don't know if they perform anymore but they

were really good and they probably still are yeah yeah but the good thing is

we're also recording when we recorded our home studio this is the home studio

is one of the perks of the like I said earlier on the technology in music is

now being able to make bands such as ourselves you know apply the equipment

that we needed and do it from home and get the same quality sound that you

would get from a different studio but currently recording the EP and that

would be released in August there's a few surprises in there and then in in a

January I believe the label what the album now and then in February in such a

pan Steve Rogers who's Paul Rogers his son you hope or gorgeous

yeah yeah the signal from back when these poor buggers Steve Rogers is its

son and where it's all in opening up 3 yeah yeah I mean I think we're going to

Australia after that because Australia so you know anyway

well I am stoked Earl it's coming things that you guys look for I want to hear

the EP we're done redone we put it way too many times today we're in it so I

can imagine I think we about 10 million

you know you think it's your baby you go I love you so much and then at the end

it's release you're not it's like poison well euro notes so done and then when it

goes back and gets popular it's like oh it's refreshing and now I can go back

and be excited about it again take that great yeah we got people

working on the on this swap we've had a lot of people work on the single win

that Queen and a lot of people working on the EP in terms of producers and

stuff like that so I mean you know it is all a bit explained and we'll be sure to

you know we'll definitely keep you up to date with what's happening yes yes for

sure and I'm Terry Mesirow and Romano's love and thank you too for

the introduction for this interview he's 3/4 excuse me very good

well if they're see me both centers everything back to being British you are

now to sway no I think it's just part of being human but who is this I'm choices

is this life yeah well no I'm recording it and then when I edit it it'll be up

on YouTube and on my websites my bad things not about that okay well I will

let me get that's your baby girl and do anything but make some your magic in

your music thank you so much time thank you

and like if that definitely confessed because I definitely

I look forward to having everything you got yeah thanks all right thank you

honey all right talk to you soon see ya

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Short-Term investments || SPP - Duration: 1:55.

[Music]

Hi, I'm Bonnie from the Saskatchewan

Pension Plan. Today we continue in our

Investment Basics series and our topic

is Short-term Investments. With respect

to SPP's Balanced fund, short term

investments refer to the instruments

with terms not exceeding 365 days.

These include investments like cash on

hand and demand deposits; treasury bills

and bonds issued by the federal and

provincial governments and their

agencies; debentures issued by Canadian

corporations including asset backed

securities,

short term bonds, repurchase agreements

and floating rate securities; and finally

bonds and notes denominated in Canadian

dollars issued by non-Canadian issuers.

So why would a pension plan use short

term investments? Just as an individual

will have the need for immediate cash to

pay expenses, pension funds also have

this requirement in order to operate, so

that we are not required to liquidate

long term investments - perhaps at a loss.

SPP's Short term fund holds only short

term investments, since its purpose is

capital preservation. The rating of this

fund is low risk. Plan members have the

option to direct part or all of their

account holdings to the Short term fund,

or to split their investment between the

Short term and Balanced funds. Thanks so

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Here we are going to Quadratic function in standard form, and put it in vertex form

We know the vertex form of a quadratic function is f(x)=a(x-h)^2+k where the vertex is (h,k)

Today, we will learn to put a quadratic function given in standard form into vertex form.

We are going to start with this one here, where a is 1.

First, we are going to group the terms with variables

so I get

x squared plus 6 x grouped together, minus 5

I'm now going to complete the square inside my parentheses

so I'm going to pull the 6 aside, divide by 2, to get 3.

My square is going to be (x+3)^2, which means I have to add a 9, or three squared,

inside the parentheses to make that perfect square,

but because I added this inside parentheses,

and my negative 5 is on the same side of the equation as the square, here's my equal sign,

I also have to subtract 9 outside the parentheses.

This will give me

the quantity x plus three squared, minus 14

This is my f of x

My vertex is then the point (-3, -14).

Now we're going to write a quadratic equation from standard form to vertex form,

where a is something other than 1.

Let's take f(x)=-3x^2+12x+7

Again, my first step is to group everything with variables together, leave my constantoutside the parentheses:

Now, before I can complete the square, my leading coefficient has to be one.

so I have to factor out my negative 3 ,

So I am factoring out negative 3, this will give me - 4x.

My plus 7 outside the parentheses just stays as plus 7 for right now.

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divide by 2, to get negative 2.

My square then becomes x minus 2, squared.

which means I have to add negative two squared inside the parentheses,

x squared minus 4 x plus (negative 2) squared, which is 4,

but notice this is being multiplied by negative three,

so what I've really done, I've really added negative 12 inside my parentheses,

so I have to add positive 12 outside my parentheses.

This will give me my equation in vertex form:

negative 3 time the quantity x minus 2 squared, plus 19.

Where my vertex is the point (2, 19).

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Welcome to the MadqueenShow hub

I am your host B-62

Today we enter the net

Netwatch is the big boogeyman of the net

This megacorporation started in Europe as a private organization, heavily sponsored

by megacorporations, designed to combat rogue hackers and computer crime

Under pressure from several governments of the European Union, they managed to get a

loose charter under the United Nations

From there, they expanded globally, with each region handling it slightly differently

Now, governments and corporations pay a regular contribution to local Netwatch offices and

Netwatch acts as a separate business affiliated only directly with local governments

The central Netwatch office is in London, which is rather strange, considering how peripheral

London is to the European Union

Must be the low rents…

There is usually one Netwatch operation offices in each region of the net

which acts purely as a scheduling

and information nexus, but, of course, payroll records are also kept there

Netwatch operates out of whatever locale they can, often moving after each run to make tracing

more difficult

There are many differences on the way the Netwatch operates depending on the region

of the Net you're in

If you're in the States, that's Netcops stronghold and its staff is accordingly

Half of these SysOps are Pro-Level runners with the rest as Mid Levels and a few trainees

They have the best equipment available

They also have the power to arrest any illegal hackers and bring them before the government

for prosecution

They are also allowed to carry Black Ice with them in case of computer assault by noted fellons

This amounts to the equivalent of a license to carry a concealed weapon

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In Australia, for instance, things are very different for Netwatch, as in Pacifica, in

general, they only have a very little legal

power and they patrol the entire area as "concerned volunteers"

Especially in the Australia and New Zealand area of the Net, where they are under a rather

restrictive agreement: Australians keep control of the enforcement end

It will be Australian police that apprehend any criminals located by Netwatch and they

will be tried in state courts

In addition, any "excessive force" used by Netwatch will be prosecuted, so SysOps

tend to be on their best behavior there

Of course, if you're dead or a brain is a fried vegetable,

it's kinda hard to press any charges

The problem that edgerunners have with Netwatch, apart from the danger of their operators,

is that they reinforce the artificial divisions that others have brought from the physical

world into the plane of information

They pretend to be a legitimate enforcement division, supposedly summoned into existence

by some near-religious mandate from the masses, and by this vainglorious posturing, they appear

to lend credence to the concepts of intellectual property and theft of information

Like any faction that has no real arguments to support their position, they resolve their

lack of arguments by hiding behind barricades of rhetoric and firing clitchés and buzzwords

at those who encroach too close

Netwatch says they want to make the net safer for humanity, but they never defined what

is the meaning of humanity or what part of the humanity are they making the net safer for

Was the net unsafe in the first place?

Thanks for entering the net with us, I hope we'll see your avatars again, good evening

and long life to Rache Bartmoss

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Quadratic in Vertex form - Duration: 4:33.

Here we are going to Quadratic function in standard form, and put it in vertex form

We know the vertex form of a quadratic function is f(x)=a(x-h)^2+k where the vertex is (h,k)

Today, we will learn to put a quadratic function given in standard form into vertex form.

We are going to start with this one here, where a is 1.

First, we are going to group the terms with variables

so I get

x squared plus 6 x grouped together, minus 5

I'm now going to complete the square inside my parentheses

so I'm going to pull the 6 aside, divide by 2, to get 3.

My square is going to be (x+3)^2, which means I have to add a 9, or three squared,

inside the parentheses to make that perfect square,

but because I added this inside parentheses,

and my negative 5 is on the same side of the equation as the square, here's my equal sign,

I also have to subtract 9 outside the parentheses.

This will give me

the quantity x plus three squared, minus 14

This is my f of x

My vertex is then the point (-3, -14).

Now we're going to write a quadratic equation from standard form to vertex form,

where a is something other than 1.

Let's take f(x)=-3x^2+12x+7

Again, my first step is to group everything with variables together, leave my constantoutside the parentheses:

Now, before I can complete the square, my leading coefficient has to be one.

so I have to factor out my negative 3 ,

So I am factoring out negative 3, this will give me - 4x.

My plus 7 outside the parentheses just stays as plus 7 for right now.

Next, I'm going to complete the square so I'm going to take the negative 4 aside,

divide by 2, to get negative 2.

My square then becomes x minus 2, squared.

which means I have to add negative two squared inside the parentheses,

x squared minus 4 x plus (negative 2) squared, which is 4,

but notice this is being multiplied by negative three,

so what I've really done, I've really added negative 12 inside my parentheses,

so I have to add positive 12 outside my parentheses.

This will give me my equation in vertex form:

negative 3 time the quantity x minus 2 squared, plus 19.

Where my vertex is the point (2, 19).

I hope this helps.

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