Brin's proposal aims to replace the document President Obama once referred to as a "10,000-page monstrosity" with a mathematical model that can find the simplest "no losers" code. The idea is to create software that can input a round of simplifications and then output a spreadsheet of how those simplifications would affect, say, a hundred different groups, from small business owners to students to corporations. You'd give it some boundaries to ensure that none of those groups take a hit of more than, say, 5% (which sounds kind of high to me, but it's the idea that counts), and keep feeding it simplifications until you arrive at the simplest code that doesn't screw anyone.