I think that should read: "Politics in a democratically elected aristocracy ... Let's pretend the voting system was a binding function from the collection of

I think that should read: "Politics in a democratically elected aristocracy ... Let's pretend the voting system was a binding function from the collection of ballots to people in charge (which is not even the case): The number of bits encoded per ballot per period between the elections is the bit-rate of that voter's feedback/input. The bit-rate of the output is the number of bits (entropy) in (changes in) laws. The democratic grade (the dimensionless ratio between bitrate of a voter to bitrate of law changes) is nearly 0. Hacking the electorate is only profitable if we don't get to vote on ideas (at a high bit-rate) but on aristocrats. <insert the aristocrats joke here>