Democracy in the 22nd Century
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2022-07-06
/omoikane/tokoroten.icon 2023-07-12
Since the book came out before the ChatGPT festival, I feel that the content of the book was not well understood by the public.
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It was Joseph Schumpeter in "Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy" (1942) who precipitated competitiveness as a desirable democratic characteristic. The most widely used arena of competition is elections. The essence of Schumpeter's argument was not the election itself, but the competition it created and the selection based on quality.
Making Elections Objective
Elections" are downgraded from "the only channel for public opinion data" to "one of many channels.
I'd like to know more about the experiment on p.170.
Objective external classification criteria are less important, and answers to subjective questions are the deciding factor in confidence in the ruling party.
If that's the case, then clustering can be done without taking sensitive external data, and we're getting closer to a Birdwatch kind of thing, aren't we? Deregulation of general will
Avoid dependence on one channel
Problems with [direct democracy
We can transfer it to an algorithm.
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