The devil is in the details with both of these proposals.
The debate mappiing systems used in direct democracy proposal would determine any “attacks” on the same. How sensibly does a proposal have to be written, who determines that? How convincing does a rebuttal have to be ? Who decides that it was convincing? How many people minimum to support a proposal/to reject one? Does every proposal have to explain where the money is going to come from? If the government runs out of money, who decides the priority of ongoing programs? It’s a lot of detail.
In the randomized democracy proposal, I would guess you would end up handing over a lot of power to the relatively stationary military and civil services. I can also foresee powerful dark arts practitioners being employed by the lobbyists who can completely profile a person within a week or so, and present proposals that will satisfy the ego of the newly selected person very quickly. But it would still be a little better than our system today.
The point is, it is difficult to modify mature political systems. You can support sea-steading or charter cities which will theoritically acccelerate the experimentation process. A sideways approach could be to support SENS and hope that long lives will give better future orientation to any politicians who are elected.
The devil is in the details with both of these proposals.
The debate mappiing systems used in direct democracy proposal would determine any “attacks” on the same. How sensibly does a proposal have to be written, who determines that? How convincing does a rebuttal have to be ? Who decides that it was convincing? How many people minimum to support a proposal/to reject one? Does every proposal have to explain where the money is going to come from? If the government runs out of money, who decides the priority of ongoing programs? It’s a lot of detail.
In the randomized democracy proposal, I would guess you would end up handing over a lot of power to the relatively stationary military and civil services. I can also foresee powerful dark arts practitioners being employed by the lobbyists who can completely profile a person within a week or so, and present proposals that will satisfy the ego of the newly selected person very quickly. But it would still be a little better than our system today.
The point is, it is difficult to modify mature political systems. You can support sea-steading or charter cities which will theoritically acccelerate the experimentation process. A sideways approach could be to support SENS and hope that long lives will give better future orientation to any politicians who are elected.