Deliberative processes, for example, seem like somewhere that AI could be enormously helpful, in a way that might help overcome a major traditional limitation of democracy, but I don’t see that being super crucial for dealing with worlds where people lose all their leverage. It seems helpful, certainly, but not obviously necessary and definitely not sufficient.
Point of tentative disagreement. (I can see you’ve marginally toned this down since private copy, and I marginally agree more now.)
Sufficient? No way. But protective and helpful and multiplying with other efforts, not necessarily forever-sustainably but with real impact? Seems quite promising to me! (cf your ‘dizzying spiral to heaven’...)
Deliberative processes (if we mean the same thing) can ideally do all of
making people justifiably feel engaged (reducing fuel for populist and fantasist reaction)
revealing (creating common knowledge of) unacceptable risks or attractive opportunities for collective action
serve the information-passing and -aggregating function(s) of society
As for how this interacts with ‘real leverage’, well… one way I imagine this is that both the residual ‘real hard leverage’ and the ‘thick veneer’ (Leicht) combine with deliberative processes (and surfacing of societal priorities) by delaying (again, not necessarily forever-sustainably!) the further erosion of leverage.
Point of tentative disagreement. (I can see you’ve marginally toned this down since private copy, and I marginally agree more now.)
Sufficient? No way. But protective and helpful and multiplying with other efforts, not necessarily forever-sustainably but with real impact? Seems quite promising to me! (cf your ‘dizzying spiral to heaven’...)
Deliberative processes (if we mean the same thing) can ideally do all of
making people justifiably feel engaged (reducing fuel for populist and fantasist reaction)
revealing (creating common knowledge of) unacceptable risks or attractive opportunities for collective action
serve the information-passing and -aggregating function(s) of society
As for how this interacts with ‘real leverage’, well… one way I imagine this is that both the residual ‘real hard leverage’ and the ‘thick veneer’ (Leicht) combine with deliberative processes (and surfacing of societal priorities) by delaying (again, not necessarily forever-sustainably!) the further erosion of leverage.