Comic #5753: law

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Panel 1: Character 1 (a woman speaking to a man): "Mr. President, the era of top-down policy is over. We can now use algorithms and A/B testing to pitch millions of ideas to constituents in order to suss out the most popular proposals."

Panel 2: Character 1: "Coming up with our own views would be inefficient, so the algorithm randomly generates policy-sounding sentences, which voters then rate by preference."

Panel 3: Character 1: "Thus, we have over time evolved the single policy that nobody opposes and everyone favors."

Panel 4: Character 2 (the man): "Throw it on the teleprompter! I'm off to my podium!"

Panel 5: Character 2: "And therefore we must… huh. Give all birds humanoid arm attachments so it looks like they're waving."

Panel 6: [THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE]

Panel 7: Character 3 (a woman in the audience): "Wow, there’s something worse than democracy."

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