one does want to “bring in many stakeholders to the conversation as coequal voices”, because that’s how you be non-HM
I think it’s quite shameful how rationalists aim to optimize the world and yet are generally uninterested in what life is like for many kinds of normal people, or what problems they face. To rule well, you should know what life is like for your subjects, and what they care about, at minimum.
But there’s also the pattern where “if your users tell you about a problem, they’re always right, and if they tell you the solution, they’re almost always wrong.” And many common forms of “consulting all the stakeholders” ends up giving a veto to special interests, which ends up strangling liberty.
There are some to my knowledge unsolved problems here.
To rule well, you should know what life is like for your subjects, and what they care about, at minimum.
This is still totally High Modernist. To actually rule well you should actually not try to rule as much and should actually try to share power, which includes giving up power. Not giving up all power, but, you know, you leave after your second term in office, and you create a parliament.
I think it’s quite shameful how rationalists aim to optimize the world and yet are generally uninterested in what life is like for many kinds of normal people, or what problems they face. To rule well, you should know what life is like for your subjects, and what they care about, at minimum.
But there’s also the pattern where “if your users tell you about a problem, they’re always right, and if they tell you the solution, they’re almost always wrong.” And many common forms of “consulting all the stakeholders” ends up giving a veto to special interests, which ends up strangling liberty.
There are some to my knowledge unsolved problems here.
This is still totally High Modernist. To actually rule well you should actually not try to rule as much and should actually try to share power, which includes giving up power. Not giving up all power, but, you know, you leave after your second term in office, and you create a parliament.
I agree on all counts.