Re:Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encryp...
by stephengillie on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @01:06PM
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It's like you're describing the separation of governance by domain. For instance, instead of having a mayor for a city, we'd have a mayor of telecommunications or technology, along with a mayor of transportation, a mayor of housing and civil engineering, and a mayor of commerce.
These problems pop up with my example:
* You still need someone to centralize the execution; people are going to want a hierarchy and to have one person at the top.
* Having 5 mayors means paying 5 times as many people (but they'll be able to work much more in depth in their subject area)
There are a lot of things we can improve, though. First past the post voting systems mathematically guarantee polarized two-party systems aligned on emotionally charged but relatively inconsequential issues. So we should switch to approval voting.
Having the same person purport to represent our interests in everything from which soda sizes we're allowed to drink to whether we can make our own end-of-life medical care decisions leads to incompetent science denialists running the government's science committee, gross ignorance of the consequences of their actions w.r.t. encryption, etc. So we should design a system with separate representatives for each technical domain, combined with an optional directly democratic override on a vote-by-vote basis.
Etc.