Demons of Democracy
Hi-Phi Nation
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Government by Simulated Oracle
There are certain forms of epistocracy that overcome this problem. In a democracy, even in compulsory voting like in Australia, you still get an electorate that is disproportionately advantaged. A type of alternative political system that I discuss in my book is called government by simulated oracle. You can let everyone vote on this, toddlers even, doesn't matter. So when you have these three sets of data, you then take that data and estimate what would a demographically identical public want if it were fully informed? There's a hypothetical to give you an example. It's still the case, say, in the American democracy that not everyone chooses to vote and the people who turn out tend to be advant
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