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above all totally absorbed in the whig view of history as big-t True
I want to agree with you, but it seems remarkably self-serving of me. "Obama isn't smart enough, but *I* am" 1/
But I can't honestly look at the current state of discourse and think "Yep, the average person can handle a free internet." 2/
Or at least, not w/ current institutions. I used to have this vague idea that random stupidity would neatly cancel itself out 3/
Which was crushed by Caplan's "Myth of the Rational Voter"; average voter being 'stupid' is not a problem. Systemic bias is. 4/
Hanson's "Futarchy" seems really promising, but looks like it might have worse failure modes than democracy. 5/
I keep expecting people to develop some kind of 'memetic immunity' but it keeps not happening 6/
It seems like the only way forward is to start building alternative, more robust institutions. But we're not *ready*. 7/
I question the long-term sustainability of democracy-based political systems but don't see anything ready to fill the gap. 8/8
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