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I honestly wonder if we are not witnessing some embrionic state of "digital direct democracy" technology ...

The most interesting thing I've seen in this direction is Sora. It's based on many principles of Athenian democracy. Of course, it's only for managing tokens and not laws, but it has some interesting ideas above and beyond "tokens = votes".

https://medium.com/sora-xor/the-sora-parliament-af8184dae384

That is indeed interesting, worth a look ...

  Also, the "central bank" aspect of it, re: actual digital coins ...

More like plutocracy, but yea it does look that way.

Heh ... plutocracy. Nice call.-

I certainly hope not. Direct democracy had a terrible record back when the world was drastically simpler than it is now.

I don't know, places like Switzerland certainly make me wish we had some of those aspects in my home country. For things with a lot of special interests like privacy legislation, it seems to get better results.

  Maybe a "mixed" solution with delegation or only on special issues or, heaven forbid, some form of AI-assisted delegated voting ...

Point taken, tend to agree ...

(However ...

... we are also more capable ourselves, and capable of dealing with greater amounts of information - that famous 1800's vs now information consumption stat ...

Or, perhaps, tech could help us "digest" and process that complexity ...

... though witnessing recent "disinformation management failures" - to put it mildly - does not point to much hope in that regard, to be exact ...)

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