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Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many gmkarl at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 17:24:59 PDT 2023


let’s design fake voting software for direct democracy!

let’s assume the problem of identifying users is solved, and hope the
system makes this moot.

i’m imagining an ideal system where people can collaborate
productively on disparate ideas to identify solution spaces that
include all their values. this might mean discussing their different
experiences and forming clear truths regarding their opinions,
perceptions, and guesses, and proving these things. moreso it might
mean including and defending meaningful value around everyone’s
importances so people are satisfied these importances are honored.

i usually think of such a system as involving a graph of related
concepts, an interface for discourse and navigation within this graph,
a way to navigate or unify shared concepts, and a way to protect the
data and dialog from potential malicious actors who maybe simply
prefer a different approach more than to learn about this one. last
bit gives rise to an idea of presenting the system well to such
people, such that they develop interest rather than worry, and find it
to have utility for their ends.

given that would be a learning curve i imagine people would still
value protecting the dialog from aggressive influence finding a way to
game the product of the rules and the human behavior. one could see
difficulties around this as related to fragmentation of current
systems, but one can also imagine algorithms that might reduce such
things, such as encouraging the value of conflicting viewpoints in
ways that strategically and atopically address vulnerabilities of the
human-/system.

what parts might develop small steps toward such an ideal, and are
reasonable to consider?


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