I would have loved to see a clause in the EU CHIPS Act to follow the principle of public money = public code for hardware.

We are financing private shareholders with public money.

It has the davantage that you can finally find out what those apps are sending back home, including your private data.

"crypto contracts had the potential to replace much (although not all) of the bureaucracy around governments and justice systems"

It's a matter of time.

That was the same for the software patent directive, we had leaks of amendments proposed by big companies, we could see that Members of Parliament were just copy pasting them.

I am sure with LLMs the time to craft those tools to fetch the data and put them back in a git repo (for example one repo per legislative project) would not be too hard to do.

The authors are lobbyists of big corporations nowadays.

This is why I believe we should do something else than elections of politicians.

Go on?

There are several alternatives, like for example a political party where 1000 random citizens are picked up for analyzing and voting on every file. Next file next 1000 batch of random citizens are picked.

We could also let people vote directly on their own laws without intermediaries.

Sounds like a sort of jury system added to the legislative process. That might actually be a workable idea as an additional safeguard/sanity check before bills can pass.

I proposed Git and Markdown instead of XML for EU law making in the European Parliament, they went with their own custom web editor to manupilate XML. And failed.

Qwen 3.8 Flash with Strata here, the problem with Strata is that you cannot easily share the server as the performance will collapse outside of a single user.