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jacques_chester on Nov 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Delegative Democracy – a scalable voting model

Some version of this idea pops up every few months on HN. It's a recurring trope of techno-utopianism.

Here's what I said previously. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2936365

I'd say something approximately as arrogantly today.

dalek_cannes on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

Paper is a technology that revolutionized the way we practice politics and law. It didn't lead to a utopia but made the system scalable beyond a tribe or village. Technology is meant to solve problems of scale here, not of human nature.

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