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I fully agree with your first paragraph, but I have too little trust and the system has too little transparency for me to buy the picture you paint in your seco

I fully agree with your first paragraph, but I have too little trust and the system has too little transparency for me to buy the picture you paint in your second paragraph.

theygotit 3y ago
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godelski 3y ago
I think my sibling comment will help[0]. You're exactly right to not trust. Certainly that's not something I am suggesting. What I'm saying is that it is simply harder to corrupt multiple people than it is to corrupt a singular person. This does not mean they cannot be corrupted. We cannot confuse these concepts. But beyond the robustness that is created by distribution, I think there is a more practical aspect to this. The world is fucking complex and no singular person can be an expert in all or even many subjects. There simply isn't enough time to do this, not to mention each subject changes with time, so we'd have to do things in parallel. I'm not sure how to do that yet haha. So practically there is an advantage because you can out source this knowledge. Which this is happening regardless. The knowledge outsourcing is either implicit to the system or explicit. I firmly believe that if it is not explicit in the system then this only creates an environment that is more prone to corruption. While we're on the topic, I think we often make a mistake when choosing the president. Absolutely no singular person is qualified. I fear people who say __I__ will solve problems, people who talk in the first person. The truth is that the world is too complex. The president's two most important roles are: 1) to be a representative figure head, 2) create a effective group of experts and be able to process and balance their opinions on their niche expertise. Even autocracies are having difficulties operating in the modern world due to this rising complexity. So I personally don't want a strong leader so much as a leader who knows how to manage and delegate properly. But even that's a difficult task. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487580

I fully agree with your first paragraph, but I have too little trust and the system has too little transparency for me to buy the picture you paint in your second paragraph.

theygotit 3y ago

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godelski 3y ago

I think my sibling comment will help[0]. You're exactly right to not trust. Certainly that's not something I am suggesting. What I'm saying is that it is simply harder to corrupt multiple people than it is to corrupt a singular person. This does not mean they cannot be corrupted. We cannot confuse these concepts. But beyond the robustness that is created by distribution, I think there is a more practical aspect to this. The world is fucking complex and no singular person can be an expert in all or even many subjects. There simply isn't enough time to do this, not to mention each subject changes with time, so we'd have to do things in parallel. I'm not sure how to do that yet haha. So practically there is an advantage because you can out source this knowledge. Which this is happening regardless. The knowledge outsourcing is either implicit to the system or explicit. I firmly believe that if it is not explicit in the system then this only creates an environment that is more prone to corruption. While we're on the topic, I think we often make a mistake when choosing the president. Absolutely no singular person is qualified. I fear people who say __I__ will solve problems, people who talk in the first person. The truth is that the world is too complex. The president's two most important roles are: 1) to be a representative figure head, 2) create a effective group of experts and be able to process and balance their opinions on their niche expertise. Even autocracies are having difficulties operating in the modern world due to this rising complexity. So I personally don't want a strong leader so much as a leader who knows how to manage and delegate properly. But even that's a difficult task. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487580