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The website is down, so I don't have much to say. But I will be very interested in how the authors define 'fairness' for this sort of problem.

Algorithms are fair right guys? It can't be biased if it's just math. \s




One advantage of a system like this can be the static nature of the objective function. If you set the rules up clearly beforehand (perhaps in a Constitutional amendment), then after a while the ebb and flow of two-party politics will balance out in the new reality (see Duverger's Law) and you no longer have to deal with gerrymandering.


I can't access the website either, but I'm really curious to see if their definition of fairness creates districts that violate the majority-minority rules in the Voting Rights Act




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