This is a case of putting political feasibility ahead of technical feasibility. Just because "the people" demand faster horses does not mean you can get to the invention of the car by supplying a series of faster horses.
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Not quite sure how you retain a democratic spirit in political processes, but I have a few at least theoretical, spherical-cow ideas. For example, I proposed somewhere once that everybody on the planet should have at least a small fractional vote in all elections.
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What is clear is that we're still running political infrastructure based on politicians' ideas of mass psychology that haven't evolved in 200 years, coupled with a technological imagination that hasn't moved an inch since Apollo. We're being governed by 1761 minds living in 1961.
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I don't know what *is* the right action plan here. All I have an idea about is what science+tech+policy experiments are at least worth trying. The problem with GND is that it corners attention/agency in a way that makes those experiments harder.
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Final point, a few are reading this thread like vindication of a Trump-equivalence on
@AOC. I don't endorse that. There is no comparison between the two. She's just a regular human politician, perhaps more charismatic and principled than average. Trump is a class IV void demon.Show this thread
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My proposal was to divide the functions of government so that people who care about exciting social status signaling stuff can vote on that, and people who care about boring infrastructure stuff can vote on that. And they don’t get in each others’ way. https://meaningness.com/metablog/virtue-court …pic.twitter.com/AXHzF9c2KW
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Ah interesting. A sort of code-division multiplexing of democracy. This arguably is what representative democracy attempts to do, except for "generalized specialists"... fails because their incentives are to turn populist and solve for social signaling instead.
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