Polymeron comments on No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Polymeron 06 March 2011 03:58:42PM 2 points [-]

These are all good and well as observations go, but it is unclear what alternative you are proposing, if any.

I would also like to point out that, once you start discriminating between who should have more (or any) weight in decision-making, the biases of whoever is making said discrimination could very well result in excluding beneficial or even indispensable viewpoints for whatever decision is being made. That isn't to argue, that extreme equality of decision-making power is optimal; but it does raise an important issue with systems that lack it, which needs to be addressed in any alternative method. There are other similar pitfalls, but I think this may be the main one.