US Senate
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US Senate is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 24, 2023 and July 07, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “a surprise victory for Democrats in the US Senate”; “The US Senate is often hailed as the ‘world’s greatest deliberative body’“. It most often appears alongside ACX, ACX Prediction Contest, AI Impacts.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 24, 2023
- Last seen: July 07, 2023
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Last year saw surging inflation, a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a surprise victory for Democrats in the US Senate. Pundits, politicians, and economists were caught flat-footed by these developments. Did anyone get them right?
The US Senate is often hailed as the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” but those who have recently paid close attention to debate on the Senate floor are likely to find this description deeply inaccurate if not an exercise in sarcasm. Productive debate is almost nonexistent. Absent are honest exchange and consideration of reasons; in their place we find partisan displays of grandstanding. There is little compromise, and consensus is almost never reached. Of course, deliberation on the Senate floor need not manifest itself in such an unpleasant form. Institutions can have a major impact on the quality of discourse, and one institutional change that can influence the quality of deliberation is whether debate is open to the public or occurs in secret. (page 64)