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0 pointsimprovisations13y ago0 comments

Ollerac is definitely onto what I was arguing in this article. Allowing people to 'opt-in' and vote with their feet in a system with greater policy experimentation through decentralized, competing jurisdictions is perhaps the closest we can get to scientific rigor (holding culture relatively constant, for example).

There is a section on "Exit and Voice" which discusses this on www.radicalsocialentreps.org/theory as well as a practical entrepreneurial proposal called "Free Cities" here: http://www.radicalsocialentreps.org/theory/free-cities/

Thanks for your thoughtful comment.

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hammock13y ago

Sounds like Bayesian vs. A/B testing. e.g. http://blog.custora.com/2012/05/a-bayesian-approach-to-ab-te... or http://www.mynaweb.com/blog/2011/09/13/myna-vs-ab.html Something that's not repeatable but works in an open system full of people, not experimental objects

ollerac13y ago

Thank you for your thought-provoking blog post. I think wide-scale group experimentation and play is slowly becoming much more incorporated into our daily lives and I'd love to see that process speed up.

Organizations like Groupon, LivingSocial, Airbnb, Kickstarter and (around where I live) The Boston Society of Spontaneity are all encouraging people to get out and make more random, meaningful connections. I look forward to the day when these organizations, ideas like thepoint.com, and the concept of something like a "sanctuary city" [1] are more commonplace and acceptable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city

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