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Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
Two nit-picks on random and jury-picking. 1: A parliament stacked with proponents of [insert political viewpoint here] is a possible (if unlikely) outcome of truly random selection. It's no biggie - but just remember that truly random selections can produce...
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Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
And one last post - on the question of better systems of governance - what would a technologically-enabled quorum sensing system for humans look like on the scale of a nation? What bits of the human condition would you need...
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Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
Well - you're proposing an (interesting!)answer to a slightly different question - what is better than representative democracy. I'm asking what a functioning representative democracy would look like. And, I suppose, I'm getting at the point that perhaps the beigemony...
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Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
For reference, Charlie, would you like to describe what the non-failure mode of representative democracy looks like on a day-to-day basis?...