100 years of whatever this will be

Re:100 years of whatever this will be by int_19h on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:55PM (#29423263)

You can certainly get a small room of people to agree on what's good for lunch, if the premise is that there's no lunch at all until they agree on what to have. There will be some compromising involved, so not everybody might get the dish that is their first choice, but the more important thing is that nobody gets something that they hate.

That aside, consensus always has a particular domain of applicability, and by decentralizing, you make that domain smaller - and thus make consensus easier. Federation can be used to replicate this process on as many layers as needed for decentralized organization of larger societies.

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Re:100 years of whatever this will be by crawfordcomeaux on Thursday December 02, 2021 @06:14PM (#29424273)

A solution is cultural:

Invite people to abandon their preferences and then organize those people so they show the world how many more needs it meets than not doing it. In particular, abandoning preferences allows the need for not to get met more easily.

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Re:100 years of whatever this will be by chii on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:06PM (#29426506)

> more important thing is that nobody gets something that they hate.

but what if there's only a limited set of choices, and at least one person in the group would hate one of the available choices? What then?

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Re:100 years of whatever this will be by int_19h on Friday December 03, 2021 @12:04AM (#29426800)

Then you split the group.

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