Thanks for the feedback! I didn’t know liquid democracy was a thing.
My thought process was: “This article is interesting. They suggest using software to enable voters to directly vote on issues rather than voting on representatives. They want to put it on top of existing processes. Here’s a better way of getting to that goal.”
This post doesn’t suggest to change existing political systems, or to implement some software nation-wide. Changing a political system is a highly difficult problem. But forming a political party is easy, and so is implementing software and processes for issue based voting. You can thus then use a proxy political party to bring issue based voting into a democratic process without modifying the democratic process itself or fighting your way through the bureaucracy required to have your software used.
I’ve been, independently, trying to level up my Original Seeing (my, and probably most rationalist’s, weakest link in OODA looping). I don’t think I have any insights worth sharing here, you seem to be far ahead of me.
But you’ve brought up shikantaza (“just sitting”), which still gets a chuckle out of me: My head canon is that Original Seeing, Naturalism, Unseeing, but also Buddhism and Stoicism, all point at roughly the same thing in concept space. That is, I suspect Buddhism did, before people made a religion out of it. I suspect the same happened to Stoicism. I haven’t bothered to analyze Christianity and other religions, they might not fit in that well.
I’ve come to that head canon because the implications of a high level of Original Seeing all point towards practices seen in both Buddhism and Stoicism. Not that I have attained high level, but I have enough to see where it’s going. Shikantaza itself is hilarious, because with all the sports-team like traditions in Buddhism, I imagine that one guy going “guys, you can figure all this out on your own just by sitting”, which is also how the Buddha did it originally, supposedly. If you figure things out for yourself, you probably don’t need any traditions to guide your exercises. If you don’t figure things out for yourself, you won’t get a lot out of going through the traditions.
To bring it back: I suspect both Buddhism and Stoicism to be “fake” versions of Original Seeing, “fake” as described above.
It’s funny to me. That’s all I wanted to share.