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Do both democratic and meritocratic methods of polling suggest the opinion is harmful? Delete. Otherwise it stays until consensus. The edge cases pale in com
by BrianOnHN 5y ago
Do both democratic and meritocratic methods of polling suggest the opinion is harmful? Delete.
Otherwise it stays until consensus.
The edge cases pale in comparison to the broadly accepted manipulation of a near-majority. And furthermore compared to the point-of-no-return where the majority is sufficiently manipulated.
Edit: downstream comments emphasizing the edge cases must've missed my last paragraph. The improvement only has to be better than doing nothing. Right now doing nothing is arguably acutely affecting almost 50% of the US population. No way the edge cases add up to that.
- nradov 5y agoShould the majority be able to suppress the speech of minorities when they express unpopular opinions on, let's say, civil rights and equality? What is meritocratic polling and who specifically gets to evaluate merit?
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> democratic and meritocratic methods of polling suggest the opinion is harmful? Delete. This is, in essence, selecting for experts spouting popular opinions. That’s a dangerous incentive model. (All before we even get to the question of delineating the experts.)
- ImPostingOnHN 5y agoit's almost as dangerous as non-experts spouting bad, counterfactual objective claims and pretending they are experts
- pigeonhole123 5y agoWhich doesn’t sound very dangerous to me
- monkey_monkey 5y agoExcept that in the last 12 months, people have literally died because they believed non-experts creating and amplifying anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. 'I wish I'd been jabbed'...
- BrianOnHN 5y agoThanks for this. It's like, other people would rather ignore reality, life and death, than budge on their uneducated opinions. Ego is the enemy.
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