DanArmak comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 07 September 2012 09:18:25PM 0 points [-]

That's more technically problematic; how could non-human animals vote in the existing kinds of elections? Human intermediaries would have to decide what was best for the non-humans they represented. Different human political factions would support different positions as being best for the non-humans, and fight over that.

(This of course doesn't apply to future possible non-human sentients like AI, uploads, uplifted animals, modified humans, etc.)

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 September 2012 05:08:21AM *  1 point [-]

That's more technically problematic; how could non-human animals vote in the existing kinds of elections?

Lead them into the voting booth, see which lever they press.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 September 2012 09:38:02PM 1 point [-]

The same is true of some minors. (Though, of course, not all.)