5 ms·

I like this trend towards e-voting since it seems to be influenced by trends in cutting edge blockchain technology like decentralised autonomous organisations.

by ajvs 8y ago

I like this trend towards e-voting since it seems to be influenced by trends in cutting edge blockchain technology like decentralised autonomous organisations. It means that novel types of national governance may follow from blockchain governance models, such as liquid democracy. This would be a vast improvement over our current representative democracy model since we'd be able to hold politicians accountable more easily, lobbyists would be less influential and we could put our voting power behind domain experts for issues of importance.

pgeorgi 8y ago
> such as liquid democracy The German Pirate Party tried liquid democracy, and the result was similar to what's going in Wikipedia: There's a small set of people with more time on their hands than it good for them or others, and it doesn't take long for them to take over.
- Zooper 8y ago
  I'm confused, why would a small set of people with time on their hands be able to compromise a liquid democracy? Are there not workarounds to the problems encountered? Interesting how we iterate so often, yet are so concrete in our conclusions about improvements to our own governance.
  - mola 8y ago
    I think because we can't afford to 'break things' with governance so we prefer not to 'move fast'. Seems like good thinking...
- C1sc0cat 8y ago
  As one of my friends (and no a local councillor) who was involved in Conservative politics at uni in the UK said it gets taken over by "a bunch of drunken yahoos". She was taking about the FCS and People like Guido Fawkes. Oh "Yahoos" refers to Jonathon Swifts Yahoos not any one employed by Yahoo
kbody 8y ago
A lot of these proposed solutions in first sight look like solutions, but I've yet to find a "blockchain" (or any other buzzword) system that offers clear advantages. In practice most of the times it's plain old ploutocracy or founderocracy disguised under the veil of a new tech (with the help of an "innocent non-profit foundation")
ilaksh 8y ago
As is often the case, by far the best comment is the least popular. It's amazing how short-sighted people are.
- magnamerc 8y ago
  Mention blockchain around here and everyone loses their minds.

by ajvs 8y ago

pgeorgi 8y ago

> such as liquid democracy The German Pirate Party tried liquid democracy, and the result was similar to what's going in Wikipedia: There's a small set of people with more time on their hands than it good for them or others, and it doesn't take long for them to take over.

Zooper 8y ago
I'm confused, why would a small set of people with time on their hands be able to compromise a liquid democracy? Are there not workarounds to the problems encountered? Interesting how we iterate so often, yet are so concrete in our conclusions about improvements to our own governance.
- mola 8y ago
  I think because we can't afford to 'break things' with governance so we prefer not to 'move fast'. Seems like good thinking...
C1sc0cat 8y ago
As one of my friends (and no a local councillor) who was involved in Conservative politics at uni in the UK said it gets taken over by "a bunch of drunken yahoos". She was taking about the FCS and People like Guido Fawkes. Oh "Yahoos" refers to Jonathon Swifts Yahoos not any one employed by Yahoo

kbody 8y ago

A lot of these proposed solutions in first sight look like solutions, but I've yet to find a "blockchain" (or any other buzzword) system that offers clear advantages. In practice most of the times it's plain old ploutocracy or founderocracy disguised under the veil of a new tech (with the help of an "innocent non-profit foundation")

ilaksh 8y ago

As is often the case, by far the best comment is the least popular. It's amazing how short-sighted people are.

magnamerc 8y ago
Mention blockchain around here and everyone loses their minds.