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Comment by elamje | Hacker News Reader

I believe there’s a congressman in Kentucky that is an MIT grad and tech entrepreneur.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie

That is a solid find!

A libertarian republican from Kentucky... while your answer might be technically correct, I really don't think that this is the rare gem of a politician that OP is looking for.

I'm actually okay with just knowing who is competent enough to make decisions. I'm super worried (I think correctly that our leadership isn't capable of understanding some of the complex issues that our society is about to face)

Like this guy as a judge: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-googl...

Someone's education or knowledge of technology is a bad indicator of how competent they would be in decision making.

I'm not using that as a proxy for ALL decision making. I'm representing that making decisions that concern technology would be better performed by people that understand technology.

Implicitly our political class might not be good with tech because they are not digital natives, from which one could infer that decisions on topics such as artificial intelligence, or biotechnology might be difficult. I was hoping for counter examples.

Article https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/7/16105120/politicia...

I understand where you coming from but I don't think that a politician's apparent knowledge about a subject is a good indicator of how good their decisions regarding this subject will be.

Don’t think being in a particular party disqualifies you from knowing tech.

Pretty sure the guy ran in the spot he would have the best chance of winning, not the place he prefers as many politicians do this.

Of course it doesn't. My point is that even if you have knowledge about technology/science, that's completely irrelevant when you then go on to support and represent people who actively ignore science/expertise and have no concept of evidence based decision making.

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