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> But that's just an extreme form of sortition IMHO, by "randomly choosing everyone" I don't know, I think they're pretty different. The main point of sortitio
by breuleux 6y ago
> But that's just an extreme form of sortition IMHO, by "randomly choosing everyone"
I don't know, I think they're pretty different. The main point of sortition, the way I see it, is to pick a small subset of people to focus on a problem. You can't ask "everyone" to focus on every issue, it's way too much work. No one would be able to do anything else. Reducing the set of deciders to a manageable size, while being statistically representative of the whole, is the whole appeal.
- JoshTriplett 6y ago> You can't ask "everyone" to focus on every issue, it's way too much work. Once upon a time, the US Constitution made a point of saying that Congress must meet at least once a year, whether they have business or not. Because it seemed, at that time, entirely plausible that they might not have that much work to do.
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- eqvinox 6y agoWe're talking about Sci-Fi novels here. In Revelation Space, "Demarchists" are a faction of humanity that has embraced cybernetics as a means to implement "true democracy"; it's described as implants that continuously poll you without this actually being a conscious thought. And there are other factions in-universe that see this as a form of tyranny and call them zombies :) https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Demarchists https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Demarchists