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Alternative voting systems (like STV) will help a LOT.

• Aerroon 3y ago
  I don't think they would make any real difference. The main problem is the voters. Apathy, misplaced interests, buying into lies etc are all things that negatively affect the outcome regardless of the system.
• patcon 3y ago
  Quadratic voting is even more interesting! It's like voting power + consilience https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience A voting system that aspires to boost uncorrelated signals, and attenuate highly correlated signals. Said another way, ideas with more support from a diversity of otherwise non-agreeing parties gets it's voting power boosted. So plurality wins. Convergence of knowledge from different sources of truth, that wins too. And a group that's very similar to itself, voting one way, that gets de-voiced. Which is appropriate, because it's not interesting and not a dynamic agreement, and says nothing about deeper underlying unity and truth. Agreement across difference means there's something powerful going on, so we want that signal elevated