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Let Simon Decide (http://www.LetSimonDecide.com) is an online decision support system based on artificial intelligence (AI), rules, social networking and decision science fundamentals. It helps define the decision making criteria and brainstorm variable and issues that affect the decision.

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It helps remove politics from the decision making process and provide a rational method for making good decisions.

Idea # 186New Tools and Technologies, decisions, collaboration, participation, social media

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humanyhuman 9 months ago

This looks like spam..how does this relate to our government?

wkimbal2 9 months ago

stop wasting everyones time! There are plenty of places for your foolishness.

dwighthuth 9 months ago

Can you SkyNet? I don't think so.

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