I suspect, like many things in politics, that the main issue here is domestic politics more than foreign affairs.
If you’ve ever compared election results between single and multi-member systems, you’ll have noticed a trend. Even if via first preference count, a minor party seems to best represent a significant chunk of the population, unless they’re geographically concentrated you can expect them to pick up on the order of ~0 seats.
Similarly, if we’re not going to abandon democratic principles, we should probably have the consent of the majority in an area before we perform an experiment on them. Problem with this is that even if world/country wide there’s a quorum of people who would consent to a given experiment, it’s highly unlikely that they all live in the same place.
While something like a Schengen area might in principle alleviate some of these concerns, it introduces two main additional ones:
1) Does your experiment actually improve society? Or does it just attract the types of people who improve society themselves? 2) Most people aren’t a big fan of being told they have to move cities/countries to continue living their lifestyle. I suspect that Lesswrong users as a cohort undervalue stability relative to the rest of the population.
I suspect, like many things in politics, that the main issue here is domestic politics more than foreign affairs.
If you’ve ever compared election results between single and multi-member systems, you’ll have noticed a trend. Even if via first preference count, a minor party seems to best represent a significant chunk of the population, unless they’re geographically concentrated you can expect them to pick up on the order of ~0 seats.
Similarly, if we’re not going to abandon democratic principles, we should probably have the consent of the majority in an area before we perform an experiment on them. Problem with this is that even if world/country wide there’s a quorum of people who would consent to a given experiment, it’s highly unlikely that they all live in the same place.
While something like a Schengen area might in principle alleviate some of these concerns, it introduces two main additional ones:
1) Does your experiment actually improve society? Or does it just attract the types of people who improve society themselves?
2) Most people aren’t a big fan of being told they have to move cities/countries to continue living their lifestyle. I suspect that Lesswrong users as a cohort undervalue stability relative to the rest of the population.