Hariant comments on Reasons for being rational - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Swimmer963 01 July 2011 03:28PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 June 2011 12:47:14AM *  0 points [-]

I think was you meant to say was: The problem with democracies is that they're often run by the majority opinon of people, and people tend to be stupid, corrupt, or both.

We could build a government that wasn't composed of just people, or even of people who fit some criteria of non-stupid and non-corrupt, and it would still be a government.

Comment author: CronoDAS 29 June 2011 09:07:37PM 2 points [-]

Stupidity and corruption are also problems with dictatorship and its variants as well.

Comment author: CharlieSheen 02 July 2011 05:39:29PM 0 points [-]

And "democracy + dictatorship and it's variants" is obviously the set of all possible workable forms of government?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 June 2011 03:52:40AM 1 point [-]

We could build a government that wasn't composed of just people

Until SIAI finishes their main project I think we're stuck with using people.

or even of people who fit some criteria of non-stupid and non-corrupt

This is extremely hard as Goodhart's law tends to make this whatever proxy you use less reliable very quickly.