Claims / C-C9M8EYT102

Conjecture

Democracies put the final say with every member, and technology can make them far smarter. Voting aggregates not only what people want but what they believe is true; liquid democracy lets each person hand their vote, topic by topic, to someone they trust with the knowledge and time to decide, and take it back at any moment.

Coordination architecture

Evidence 4 passages

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    But it seems unlikely that a system like this would be a lot worse than the representative democracies we have today, and it's quite easy to imagine that it could be a lot better.

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    In this way, you can have your interests represented by people with very specialized knowledge and enough time to consider decisions thoughtfully.

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    In addition to aggregating people's values and preferences, democracies can also be very useful as a way of aggregating people's opinions about what is true.

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    But the key aspect of a democracy is that the ultimate decision-making power comes from all the members of the group, not just its leaders.

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