Baughn comments on Ideas wanted: democracy in an Em world - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Baughn 07 June 2013 04:02:22PM * 1 point [-]

Well, there's the singleton AI approach.

More generally, even at lower technology levels it may be possible to encode much of the functioning of the state in (open-source) software.

Comment author: DanielLC 07 June 2013 09:12:42PM 1 point [-]

More generally, even at lower technology levels it may be possible to encode much of the functioning of the state in (open-source) software.

How does that help at all? Whoever controls the program is in charge. Do we decide it democratically? Do we have a dictator write it?

Comment author: Baughn 08 June 2013 02:47:32AM 3 points [-]

It helps for the same reason that encoding rules in books of law does.