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Decentralized governance is interesting like nuclear fusion: it's 30 years away and always will be. Real governance requires somebody to take the time and effor
by dash2 5y ago
Decentralized governance is interesting like nuclear fusion: it's 30 years away and always will be. Real governance requires somebody to take the time and effort to think about solutions to public goods problems. In other words, governance is a public good. Decentralizing it just results in underprovision.
- namlem 5y agoExcept nuclear fusion isn't 30 years away anymore. A ton of progress has been made in plasma physics. There's a good chance we'll see an energy-positive reactor by the end of this decade.
- inter_netuser 5y agoHB11?
- namlem 5y agoAlso SPARC, ITER, whatever Lockheed is working on, and probably others.
- lottin 5y ago> Decentralized governance Do you mean voting? Has been around since ancient Greece.
- dash2 5y agoI do not. Direct democracy, as practiced by Athens, would be a better example. Worked OK for Athens for a while. Athens had probably 30,000 citizens. No modern state has tried replacing representative democracy with direct democracy, for reasons nicely explained by Benjamin Constant (https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/constant-the-liberty-of-ancients-compared-with-that-of-moderns-1819 https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/constant-the-liberty-of-a...).