Corporations are held in check by the government so they don’t actually hurt you. The only thing holding the government in check is democracy. It’s far from perfect, but what other options do we have to keep the government from becoming arbitrarily corrupt?
Corporations are held in check by the government so they don’t actually hurt you. The only thing holding the government in check is democracy. It’s far from perfect, but what other options do we have to keep the government from becoming arbitrarily corrupt?
Well, there’s the singleton AI approach.
More generally, even at lower technology levels it may be possible to encode much of the functioning of the state in (open-source) software.
How does that help at all? Whoever controls the program is in charge. Do we decide it democratically? Do we have a dictator write it?
It helps for the same reason that encoding rules in books of law does.