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Re:Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of C... by sunshinerag on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @02:31AM (#42557145)
Wait what … how does democracy work then?
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Re:Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of C... by nfw2 on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @02:43AM (#42557193)
the benefit of democracy is primarily that it prevents governments from doing bad things, less so that it empowers more effective governance
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Re:Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of C... by mathgeek on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @06:05AM (#42557969)
It can do either, and can fail to do either. It’s the people having power that enables the outcomes, not the system itself. Democracy just grants the power to a broader set of people.
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Re:Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of C... by optimalsolver on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @06:16AM (#42558024)
It doesn't.
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Re:Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of C... by coldtea on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @09:48AM (#42559002)
Democracy is not about being smart or dumb.

It's about everyboty having a say in decisions of government that affects them.

The failure of democracy as a system is not when people make dumb decisions (experts and high-IQ people have made some of the most stupid and catastrophic decisions in history), but when people's collective decisions are not being respected.

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