jkaufman comments on Futarchy and Unfriendly AI - Less Wrong

9 Post author: jkaufman 03 April 2015 09:45PM

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Comment author: jkaufman 06 April 2015 12:49:22PM 2 points [-]

"Futarchy" is an obscure, non-descriptive name. Better call it something like "prophetocracy"

"Futarchy" is the standard term for this governmental system. Perhaps Hanson should have chosen a different name, but that's the name its been going under for about a decade and I don't think "prophetocracy" would be an improvement.

Comment author: V_V 06 April 2015 10:04:40PM 0 points [-]

It's not a very well know word, anyway. Would the cost of changing it outweigh the benefit of a relatively self-descriptive word?