The limitation with traditional democratic methods, such as referendums, petitions, or voting, lies in their insufficient bitrate to fully convey these comprehensive solutions. The bandwidth of democracy was too narrow, and the response time too delayed. Utilizing Polis allowed us to transform conventional voting inputs into structured natural language inputs. Through crowd moderation, we demonstrated that stakeholders, including Uber and taxi drivers and their passengers, generally agree on most issues.

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