“Your comment assumes that policies should be set by people with values representative of the population.”
No, it doesn’t. One might do best to delegate power to someone pursuing different and partially opposed goals (at least in part because of a different personality rather than expertise) because of outweighing advantages like scientific knowledge, or because the values have special practical use in the case (e.g. a long time horizon in a central banker). But my comment just acknowledged that from the perspective of any particular values, it can be a mistake to delegate power to someone opposed to some of those values for reasons other than knowledge.
It is possible to say that a policy has a drawback relative to a utilitarian, or egalitarian, or tribalist, or U.S. founder perspective without sharing any of them. being any of those things.
“So if we speak from just the slightly-more-elitist framework of representative democracy that the US founders intended, this assumption is wrong.”
I mentioned ‘comparably informed’ expertise, so ‘wiser’ seems to just mean people with certain basic values and personalities.
“Your comment assumes that policies should be set by people with values representative of the population.”
No, it doesn’t. One might do best to delegate power to someone pursuing different and partially opposed goals (at least in part because of a different personality rather than expertise) because of outweighing advantages like scientific knowledge, or because the values have special practical use in the case (e.g. a long time horizon in a central banker). But my comment just acknowledged that from the perspective of any particular values, it can be a mistake to delegate power to someone opposed to some of those values for reasons other than knowledge.
It is possible to say that a policy has a drawback relative to a utilitarian, or egalitarian, or tribalist, or U.S. founder perspective without sharing any of them. being any of those things.
“So if we speak from just the slightly-more-elitist framework of representative democracy that the US founders intended, this assumption is wrong.”
I mentioned ‘comparably informed’ expertise, so ‘wiser’ seems to just mean people with certain basic values and personalities.