https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs?si=KL8qy3W5QAuQqUAW
This dark vision of democracy based in game theory is worth wider notice at this moment. It helps us understand what is happening with Trump and the United States.
Because the hope for democracy is not that our elites are necessarily better as individuals...THREAD...
This dark vision of democracy based in game theory is worth wider notice at this moment. It helps us understand what is happening with Trump and the United States.
Because the hope for democracy is not that our elites are necessarily better as individuals...THREAD...
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But citizens have to hold the elites accountable for misalignment, so the people need to have a basic level of rationality and a source of objective information.
Also, the nature of our economy has to be one in which freedom, civil society, universities, research...predict greater productivity. What if that's no longer true, or not as true as it once was?
This is why neo-monarchical views of power are gaining currency among some elites in Silicon Valley. What's so great about democracy anyway, if the sources of wealth are clicks and AI?