Key to the City: Writing Code to Induce Social Change
summary
Claim: instances of inequality become verifiable decision problems — income disparity maps to a computationally checkable condition and can be tested quickly. Tools: geographic GPS → complex plane mapping via a Riemann sphere, simple deterministic charts built from crowdsourced data, and code-as-policy heuristics. Built outcome: one chart from one contributor suffices to verify a solution in reasonable time; boundaries (city/county) and targeted nontechnical interventions decide where effort goes.
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chapters (34)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25About me
- 1:10Im impatient
- 1:29Todays goals
- 1:51Hacking
- 2:33Regular Text
- 2:50Inequality and Society
- 3:22Review
- 4:19Reality exists
- 4:30Blockers
- 5:43Decisions
- 6:11Decision Problem
- 6:46Technology
- 7:29Inequality
- 8:33Income disparity
- 9:16Variable Y
- 10:16NP Complexity
- 11:22Models Matter
- 12:16Tools
- 13:23Complex Plane
- 13:33Riemann Sphere
- 14:16Mapping
- 14:57Drawing Lines
- 15:14Density
- 16:00Living on the Earth
- 16:11Clothes Pathways
- 16:58Our Effort
- 18:03Recap
- 18:46Income Disparity
- 19:01Boundaries Matter
- 19:43Axiom of Choice
- 20:02Other Types of Inequality
- 23:35Leverage
- 25:18Homework
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