Lumifer comments on Democracy and rationality - Less Wrong

8 Post author: homunq 30 October 2013 12:07PM

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Comment author: DataPacRat 30 October 2013 05:15:03PM 0 points [-]

The original idea for it may come from there, yes; but why did that idea get implemented at any particular time, instead of earlier or later?

Comment author: Lumifer 30 October 2013 05:21:32PM 1 point [-]

Oh, boy. That's a topic about which there is little consensus, if any. You're basically asking for a comprehensive theory which explains how and why various political structures arose and fell in the course of history. That's a very contentious field filled with mindkilling mines...