Re:Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology
by loceng on Saturday July 22, 2017 @04:16PM
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Not yet - the internet is fairly recent technology though. Even our voting mechanisms and processes are rudimentary and can greatly improve with things like citizens being able to micro-vote on anything and everything - with policies in place to not flood people with too many decisions, while giving them enough confirmed time (e.g. proof of awareness) to make a decision to allocate a vote to an issue.
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Re:Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology
by acdha on Sunday July 23, 2017 @07:38AM
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Voting is a really hard problem: beyond the massive and likely intractable security problems[1] you start getting into problems with knowledge. Say you push out a vote on a big trade deal or a proposed change to the healthcare system – what percentage of voters have the time and knowledge to even evaluate the options? What percentage of them have time to do so before the deadline?
1. Consider how you'd handle an employer coercing their employees to vote in a particular way. Absentee ballots are already a problem here but they're not used frequently enough to be decisive in most elections.
Re:Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology
by loceng on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:44AM
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To your first problem point - the quick thought I have is to allow people to appoint a person they trust specifically for that. I don't know how it would unfold, however hopefully you'd be able to do research on someone - to see what their character is, how they behave, etc.
How would an employer learn how an employee votes? And fuck that shit - with UBI hopefully people early on in life will learn to not tolerate force/pressure and control like that.