On 05/10/2014 08:33 PM, Kristov Atlas wrote:
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>> The problem is no accountability, voters are locked in once the decision is made. This made sense in the days of horseback travel, but in a post-bitcoin world this idea is preposterous. Accountability is necessary all the time, and applying the metaphors and tools of Bitcoin we can achieve it.
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> No software can solve the issue of initiating violence. This is the actual problem with politics, not accountability. Direct democracy might be an incremental improvement, but I'd rather flip the board rather than rearranging our chess pieces. It's time to evolve.

I agree. Using software to incrementally improve voting is putting
lipstick on a pig.

Enlightenment is the recognition that voting as a mechanism is incapable
of conveying legitimacy (if ethics really were derived from a majority
consensus, then we wouldn't recognize gang rape as evil).

The lawmaking process is not broken because of a failure in the election
systems - it's broken because it shouldn't exist.