Merge branch 'main' of https://github.com/pluralitybook/plurality

.github/workflows/docs-ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+name: docs continuous integration
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: 
+      - main
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Configure Git Credentials
+        run: |
+          git config user.name github-actions[bot]
+          git config user.email 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.x
+      - run: echo "cache_id=$(date --utc '+%V')" >> $GITHUB_ENV 
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          key: mkdocs-material-${{ env.cache_id }}
+          path: .cache
+          restore-keys: |
+            mkdocs-material-
+      - run: pip install mkdocs-material 
+      - run: mkdocs gh-deploy --force

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -7,13 +7,18 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    if: ${{ github.repository_owner == 'pluralitybook' || github.repository_owner == 'audreyt' }}
+    if: ${{ github.repository_owner == 'pluralitybook' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
       contents: write
       packages: write
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Rebuild the plurality.net website
+      env:
+        REBUILD_WEBHOOK: ${{ secrets.REBUILD_WEBHOOK }}
+      run: |
+        curl -X POST -d {} "$REBUILD_WEBHOOK"
     - name: Generate book files
       run: |
         # Install necessary dependencies (e.g., Perl, Docker)

contents/english/5-4-augmented-deliberation.md

@@ -96,10 +96,13 @@ In a similar spirit, one can imagine harnessing and advancing elements of the de
 Such dynamic representations of social life could also dramatically improve how we approach representation and selection of participants for deeper deliberation, such as in person or in rich immersive shared realities.  With a richer accounting of relevant social differences, it may be possible to move beyond geography or simple demographics and skills as groups that need to be represented.  Instead, it may be possible to increasingly use the full intersectional richness of identity as a basis for considering inclusion and representation.  Constituencies defined this way could participate in elections or, instead of sortition, protocols could be devised to choose the maximally diverse committees for a deliberation by, for example, choosing a collection of participants that minimizes how marginalized from representation the most marginalized participants are based on known social connections and affiliations.  Such an approach could achieve many of the benefits of sortition, administration and election simultaneously, especially if combined with some of the liquid democracy approaches that we discuss in the voting chapter below.
 
 
-It may be possible to, in some cases, even more radically re-imagine the idea of representation. GFMs can be "fine-tuned" to increasingly accurately mimic the ideas and styles of individuals.[^LLMFinetune] One can imagine training a model on the text of a community of people (as in Talk to the City) and thus, rather than representing one person's perspective, it could operate as a fairly direct collective representative, possibly as an aid, complement or check on the discretion of a person intended to represent that group.
+It may be possible to, in some cases, even more radically re-imagine the idea of representation. GFMs can be "fine-tuned" to increasingly accurately mimic the ideas and styles of individuals.[^LLMFinetune] One can imagine training a model on the text of a community of people (as in Talk to the City) and thus, rather than representing one person's perspective, it could operate as a fairly direct collective representative, possibly as an aid, complement or check on the discretion of a person intended to represent that group. A striking real-world implementation of this concept is [The Synthetic Party](https://www.detsyntetiskeparti.org) (Det Syntetiske Parti) of Denmark. Founded in 2022, it is officially the world’s first political party driven by artificial intelligence,[^xiang] aiming to make generative text-to-text models genuinely democratic rather than merely populist. This synthetic party encapsulates a broad spectrum of often contradictory policies to reflect the diverse and fragmented views of unrepresented voters. The Synthetic Party—a collaboration between the "Computer Lars"-artist group of Asker Bryld Staunæs and Benjamin Asger Krog Møller, and the tech-hub MindFuture—conceptualized this initiative by investigating Denmark’s voter turnout statistics. They identified a persistent 15-20% abstention rate and correlated it with the existence of over 200 micro-parties failing to gain electoral seats.[^Wikipedia] By fine-tuning their GFM on data from these micro-parties, The Synthetic Party algorithmically integrates abstention rates and disenfranchised presence, hypothetically aiming to capture 20% of the voting populace, which approximates 20-36 seats in the 179-seat parliament. This creative approach to data-driven representation brings an almost alien perspective on democratic processes of inclusion and exclusion by probabilistically determining its representative seats based on voter disengagement, thus providing a channel to the discourse of abstentionist constituencies.
 
-Most boldly, this idea could in principle extend beyond living human beings as we explore further in our [Environment](https://www.plurality.net/v/chapters/6-4/eng/?mode=dark) chapter below.  In his classic *We Have Never Been Modern*, philosopher Bruno Latour argued that natural features (like rivers and forests) deserve representation in a "parliament of things".[^latour]  The challenge, of course, is how they can speak.  GFMs might offer ways to translate scientific measures of the state of these systems into a kind of "[Lorax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax)", Dr. Seuss's mythical creature who speaks for the trees and animals that cannot speak for themselves.[^Lorax]  Something similar might occur for unborn future generations, as in Kim Stanley Robinson's [*Ministry for the Future*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future).[^Robinson]  For better or worse, such GFM-based representatives might be capable of carrying out deliberations faster than most humans can follow and might then convey summaries to human participants, allowing for deliberations that include individual humans and also allow for other styles, speeds and scales of natural language exchange.
+Most boldly, this idea could in principle extend beyond living human beings as we explore further in our [Environment](https://www.plurality.net/v/chapters/6-4/eng/?mode=dark) chapter below. In his classic *We Have Never Been Modern*, philosopher Bruno Latour argued tha
+t natural features (like rivers and forests) deserve representation in a "parliament of things."[^latour] The challenge, of course, is how they can speak. GFMs might offer ways to translate scientific measures of the state of these systems into a kind of "[Lorax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax)," Dr. Seuss's mythical creature who speaks for the trees and animals that cannot speak for themselves.[^Lorax] Something similar might occur for unborn future generations, as in Kim Stanley Robinson's [*Ministry for the Future*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future).[^Robinson] For better or worse, such GFM-based representatives might be capable of carrying out deliberations faster than most humans can follow and might then convey summaries to human participants, allowing for deliberations that include individual humans and also allow for other styles, speeds and scales of natural language exchange.
 
+[^xiang]: Chloe Xiang, [*This Danish Political Party is Led By an AI*](https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpb3p/this-danish-political-party-is-led-by-an-ai?fbclid=IwAR0HQzFUbfxwruvrRd2VeaMEn0IOFBIZJuJsbyaPx5y3UjyyNV6goKh4j0A), Vice: Motherboard, 2022
+[^Wikipedia]: [The Synthetic Party (Denmark)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Synthetic_Party_(Denmark)), Wikipedia
 [^latour]: Bruno Latour, *We Have Never Been Modern* (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
 [^Lorax]: Dr. Seuss, *The Lorax* (New York: Random House, 1971)
 [^Robinson]: Kim Stanley Robinson, *Ministry for the Future* (London: Orbit Books, 2020).