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📝 Expand politics note on pluralistic coordination
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- The costs of regulations are regressive: [much more easily absorbed by big companies than startups](https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/08/a-something-sort-of-like-left-libertarianism-ist-manifesto/). The problem with banning and regulating things is that it's a blunt instrument.
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- _Could laws be self corrected?_ When a law is approved, If X is not archived in Y time, withdraw law. Many of the problems people worry about probably won't exist in 10 years. There are likely new problems you could never have guessed would come up. [When writing a policy, include a few internal facing failure signals and a few external facing failure signals that make clear the policy isn't working anymore](https://bellmar.medium.com/the-death-of-process-cdb0151a41fe) and might be better to revisit.
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- Sometimes the more important thing is not [[Making Decisions|better mechanisms for the final decision-making step]], but better mechanisms for [discussing and coordinating](https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1433396553591320578) what to propose (explore the space) in the first place.
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- We need [tools for identifying possible shifts to the order](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2030781981706051769) that would satisfy large cross-cutting groups of people, and presenting those possible shifts to change-making, to make it clear to them that those particular shifts would be easier for them to accomplish, because they would have a lot of support and legitimacy.
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- We should be exploring alternatives ways of doing things. Right now we have mostly one type of political system, one type of voting system and one method of science funding for example.
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- [Communities die primarily by refusing to defend themselves](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-gardens-die-by-pacifism). Censorship and moderation might be required for a great community to continue existing.
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- Being good at politics doesn't mean being good at taking decisions that help your voters. [High-functioning sociopaths climb the ladder, so now the world's run mostly by sociopaths](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/).
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- Architect coordination as a fractal "pace-layering" of ever more specific algorithms, each handling half the remaining complexity with the simplest tool.
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- [A key technical component making democracy work is the secret ballot. No one knows who you voted for, and furthermore, you do not have the ability to prove to anyone else who you voted for, even if you really want to](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/04/14/privacy.html).
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- Voting is a preference aggregation method. Preferences must be aggregated across multiple individuals to determine a collective decision or ranking. This process is central to social choice theory, which provides a mathematical foundation for preference aggregation.
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- Pluralistic voting models, that focus on finding "consensus across difference" [are valuable](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2030781981706051769). They inherently empower diverse viewpoints, and prevent an intellectual or decision-making ecosystem from being overly dominated by monoculture.
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- Every time you derive an opinion from a group, you are doing a lossy compression of each individual opinion. How you do it (preference and meta-preference aggregation) is in itself an opinion / choice.
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