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I didn’t have one. I was asserting the idea that people were going to attack your post for saying “Use AI.”

I hear where you are coming from, but you just said “Use AI” on Lemmy. This should be fun 😁

I am happy to concede that point.

That said, in the US, evidentially speaking, the current administration has a near all time low in approval.

I am not convinced the veto panels would be any worse off than the current administration in terms of approval.

There are a few ways that the Socratic position (epistocracy) could be implemented and he covers them in the book. I am partial to a panel of experts that can only veto laws in their area of expertise.

For example. Congress passes a law to allow offshore drilling and the climate change panel vetos it.

I am not sure I buy the conditional statement

“If a population is well educated then they will vote well”

There is a component of research time that greatly limits ones ability to vote in most matters.

Furthermore the afformentioned conditional statement ignores the litany of cognitive biases that would influence a vote.

Without spoiling too much from the book, the argument is “protection from the tyrrany of the massively misinformed.”

The arguments hinge on the idea that, if voting is equal (I am not 100% sure on his stance for equitable), then the under informed masses force us into subjugation through their ignorance.

Pragmatically, his major point is, it’s very hard (and likely impossible) for everyone to be informed on every topic, so we should abstain from topics where we are under informed (which for most of us, most of the time, is most topics).

I both think people have a right to dignity, which by extension means they should have a say of how to live their lives. I also think that the general population shouldn’t vote. Against Democracy is a really good read if you haven’t read it.

For the record, I literally will drive people to the polls (since our current system creates better outcomes if more people vote) but I do really wish that most of them wouldn’t XD.

I don’t know if it’s a location as much as a mindset for me.

I look for fallacies and falsehoods and should they arise at rates that would be hard to chalk up as honest error, I stop trusting the source.

It turns out that Jebidiah was plowing her instead of the field.

I am pretty sure they want Taiwan to open up the waterways between them and Taiwan.

The whole “it’s China” thing is for show. Same with Tibet, there is a ton of lithium there so “it’s China” is the excuse for that as well.