army1987 comments on Please don't vote because democracy is a local optimum - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 November 2012 09:45:25AM 1 point [-]

Good point, though it's not obvious to me that the system that works best in a town with population 40,000 is necessarily also the system that works best in a subcontinent with population 1 billion.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 November 2012 02:16:16PM *  2 points [-]

If we see the small scale governments outperforming the more conventional larger ones by a wide enough margin but want to play it safe, maybe the take away is that the subcontinent shouldn't be under a single government.