I think a direct democracy would be a disaster. The average person can't sink the time to become knowledgeable on all matters that affect them. Worse yet, the

I think a direct democracy would be a disaster. The average person can't sink the time to become knowledgeable on all matters that affect them. Worse yet, the average person is trivially manipulated through mass media. To game the entire system, you just have to gain control of the education sector and grow yourself a generation of placated consumers that do as they're told. And exactly this seems to be happening in many countries right now. Getting a desired outcome on any given vote by polarising the topic along some axis sounds like something that could be achieved with current generation ML.