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Yes, I agree that it's hard. It's hard to displace dictators in general. It still must be done. And we should learn from this as a society and tweak the rules
by fmihaila 8y ago
Yes, I agree that it's hard. It's hard to displace dictators in general. It still must be done. And we should learn from this as a society and tweak the rules to make it harder for anyone to become a dictator in the future.
- anticensor 8y agoWe could apply distributed systems decision theory into general sociology, it might work.
- fmihaila 8y agoWow, I didn't expect this reply. I had the exact same thought after I read this HN thread [1] from 3 weeks ago about coordination-free distributed consistency [2]. Is this what you had in mind? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19316737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19316737 [2] https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distributed-consistency-is-easy/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distri...