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

1 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 06 June 2013 02:05PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 07 June 2013 07:28:32AM 0 points [-]

Do you think this idea can be generalised to Ems?

Comment author: warbo 13 June 2013 04:38:49PM 1 point [-]

We can generalise votes to carry different weights. Starting today, everyone who currently has one vote continues to have one vote. When someone makes a copy (electronic or flesh), their voting power is divided between themselves and the copy. The total amount of voting power is conserved and, assuming that copies default to the political opinion of their prototypes, the political landscape only moves when someone changes their mind.