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Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by cmitsakis on Sunday July 06, 2025 @08:33AM (#44480225)
Good idea. Random selection is interesting but I don't know if it can work today. A solutions for the issue you mentioned "Nobody knows anything about any of the candidates" is a system that allows people to vote only for people they know personally, and use some algorithm (maybe something like the PageRank algorithm that Google used) that rates each citizen according to the votes they get but also the votes are valued according to the rating of each citizen. That way the rating flows to the people who are really trusted by the people and not the best funded career politicians. Just an idea. maybe there are problems with that too if it can be gamed but it's worth trying.
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Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by gruez on Sunday July 06, 2025 @09:58AM (#44480864)
>That way the rating flows to the people who are really trusted by the people and not the best funded career politicians.

So more people like Donald Trump or Joe Rogan, and less people like Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo?

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Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by andriesm on Sunday July 06, 2025 @02:10PM (#44482801)
A solution does exist? - micro democracy, delegate more decision making authority to the smallest geographic unit possible. Then people are voting for someone from their neighborhood.
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Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by const_cast on Sunday July 06, 2025 @04:45PM (#44483898)
This comes with a lot of trade-offs. The complexity of regulation explodes, because everything takes more hops and there's more context switching.

Even with just 50 states in the US currently, the complexity is very high. Operating in all 50 states or just a few is very difficult and costs a lot of money. Usually what happens is the "lowest common denominator" solution: whereby companies just follow the superset of laws that comply with the most stringent regions.

That's why California law is pretty much the most important state law. California has the biggest economy, and a lot of companies are headquartered there. In addition, their laws tends to be more restrictive for companies. So even if you're in Texas, there's a good chance you're just controlled by California law.

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Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by mlazos on Sunday July 06, 2025 @03:57PM (#44483544)
It just seems like the rating is a vote. You’d end up with the same problems.
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Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by zh3 on Monday July 07, 2025 @05:34AM (#44488421)
There's an SF short story where a single person is selected in an "electronic democracy" and asked questions to determine the outcome of an election.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)
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