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

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

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 07 June 2013 09:42:42AM 2 points [-]

If an em is running at 10x speed, do they get 10x the voting power, since someone being in power for the next 4 years will be 40 subjective years for them?

If ems can convert money to speed, this approximately means "more power to rich people". Just saying.

Comment author: Bruno_Coelho 08 June 2013 04:37:12PM 0 points [-]

In em scenario we set rich people as the first ems. Don't know how broad this is, but Robin expect a small group of people with lots of copies.

Comment author: Slackson 07 June 2013 12:49:30PM 0 points [-]

Point. I imagine that increased speed will not be the most cost-effective way to turn money into political influence, however. There are plenty of ways to do that already, and unless it's cheaper than other alternatives it won't make much of a difference.