The Importance of Empirical Beliefs in Voting

When someone votes, there are two things that are happening at once. They're conveying their empirical beliefs about the world and voting on policies. And so when I imagine an epistocracy in which the vote is being restricted to people who have the highest information or the most education, it seems to me that even if the empirical content of the vote is much better than it was before under a full democracy, you're no longer capturing the values and preferences of below information voters. We don't really have a good way of disambiguating people's value judgments from their empirical judgments," he says.