jimrandomh comments on Mechanics without wrenches - Less Wrong

33 Post author: PhilGoetz 15 April 2009 08:09PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 16 April 2009 02:52:57AM 2 points [-]

One problem is that representatives aren't specialized

US Congressmen are divided into committees, each of which deals with one topic, so they do get to specialize. Unfortunately, the committee assignments don't happen until after election, so voters can't take candidate-committee mismatches into account.