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We need to invest effort into researching how to make quick, high-quality decisions as a collective. Large concentrations of power emerge because we haven't yet
by TFYS 2y ago
We need to invest effort into researching how to make quick, high-quality decisions as a collective. Large concentrations of power emerge because we haven't yet discovered how to make effective decisions democratically. Representative democracy is not good enough. We need a robust system of direct democracy capable of producing decisions that are at least as good as those made by a skilled small group.
Innovations like blockchains and LLMs might finally enable us to develop such a system.
- sangnoir 2y ago> We need to invest effort into researching how to make quick, high-quality decisions as a collective Getting rid of First past the post voting systems will reduce incidents of extremism. Ranked choice voting, multiparty systems amd coalition governments would be an improvement on the current American status quo.
- TFYS 2y agoNone of that prevents extremely wealthy people and organizations from buying enough politicians and media to corrupt the system. Europe has a lot of those things and is struggling with the same issues as the US. We need to either prevent such concentrations of wealth or create a democratic system that money can't corrupt.
- CMCDragonkai 2y agoYes this is correct - which is why the crypto infrastructure is just bootstrapping a much more important piece of political infrastructure.
- tomrod 2y agoSocial Choice Theory begs to differ that we don't understand voting structure in great detail.