How Can We Balance a Need for Expert Opinions with Everyone Having a Say?

How do we prevent the corruption of the concentration of power, while allowing those who have the expertise needed to make informed decisions on complicated topics to be empowered to make those decisions? How do we balance the need for experts to have more influence...

Elections and Delegation in a Liquid Democracy?

Political delegation is a difficult subject. Nobody has the time, interest, or expertise to make reasonable decisions on all the challenges the group or society faces. Representatives allow us to think less about every nuanced decision. And, political delegation...

Intelligence: the Ability to Do Mental Work.

Humanity is facing some very difficult problems. It will take a lot of mental work to ensure the wellbeing of humanity, and life itself. There are two potential sources of mental work; humanity, and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence comes with a large...

Building Protopian Futures Unconference Report:

I was honored to speak at the Trusted Seeds Unconference on Liquid Democracy. Here is the report on the entire event: Building Protopian Futures Unconference Report: A Peer Learning Resource for Community Stewards https://trustedseed.org/building-protopian-futures...

Let’s face it. The idea of representation is a tragedy.

Let’s face it. The idea of representation is a tragedy. It was reasonable at a time when a representative was bringing the opinions of a town hall to the country capital by horse.The town hall consisted of 20 to 150 white men, all farmers and blacksmiths.Today,...