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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...

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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.

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