Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar...
by srean on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:33AM
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I agree with your broad point. As I said in another comment, perhaps it is time to lean towards sortition. We need a better and faster feedback loop.
Low probability but high impact hazards, those are the toughest to deal with at society scale.
Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar...
by huurtehoog on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:03AM
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There's no system that can compensate for what people think, want, and do.
We just need to be better. All anyone can do is be a bit better everyday. It's a monumental, hard task that we all just need to do.
This is how society gets better. We have come a long way. We have a long way to go. We can't "design" our way out of simply being better people.
Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar...
by DoctorOetker on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:23AM
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I think you will find little support for your suggestion that when you huurtehoog give up on something, the whole world should also give up on it, without rigorous proof of the proclaimed hopelessness.
This is part of the problem:
The problem is not necessarily democracy, but rather the insight the lack of bandwidth in voting ballots. A few bits every 4 years or whatever? Contrast this with the rate of modification in the law of a jurisdiction. Define the "democratic grade" as the ratio of binding democratic input in bits/per year to the changes in the binding law in bits/per year.
The problems aren't the concepts of democracy, but that humanity was sold a muzzle with a nameplate stating "democracy".
One may argue that it was necessary in the era where most democracies were initiated, until large enough fractions of the population become educated, but justified or not, its hard to defend today.
Every time you spread the message that we just need to "vote right" you too are in a novel way a part of the problem.