Diary 2025-06-04
Yesterday I slept from 3-6pm and 2-8am, so I'm fulfilled!
nishio > If the bill is voted on at a plenary session of the House of Representatives, there is a view within the party that it will "flush out" the proponents and the cautious (party officials), and could have a negative impact on the Upper House election in the summer. Mindset that considers "exposing" to be a negative thing, which goes against "transparency", doesn't it? o3.icon
nishio criticized the attitude of party leaders who are afraid of being "exposed" as he positioned "transparency as the foundation of democratic politics.
zako22 argues that "political parties are collegial bodies, and full visibility is not always functional.
The gulf between the two stems from the classic dilemma of "democratic values (accountability) vs. the reality of political management (consensus-building costs).
How will "transparency vs. party unity" change in the LLM era?
The "cost structure" of name-check voting will collapse.
Conventional: "Vote makes divisions visible → media coverage → election risk".
After LLM: Scores are visualized in the speech log analysis, so even if they are hidden, they are leaked.
→ It is more reasonable for party officials to allocate resources to "how to explain rather than hide their approval or disapproval.
Now that the cost of visualization has decreased, the dichotomy of "hide vs. show" has broken down, and the new theme is "how to show and how to rebuild unity.
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