It’s not obvious to me that selection for loyalty over competence is necessarily more likely in fascism or bad. A competent figure who is opposed to democracy would be a considerably worse electoral candidate than a less competent one who is loyal to democracy assuming that democracy is your optimization target.
It’s not obvious to me that selection for loyalty over competence is necessarily more likely in fascism or bad. A competent figure who is opposed to democracy would be a considerably more concerning electoral candidate than a less competent one who is loyal to democracy assuming that democracy is your optimization target.
What do you mean by “worse” here?
As in decreases the ‘amount of democracy’ given that democracy is what you were trying to optimize for.
I would suggest rephrasing to “concerning” to distinguish from “unelectable” as an interpretation of “worse”.
Agreed. I have edited that excerpt to be: