Thanks, I agree and that's exactly why I mentioned in the draft of the constitution in Article 4.2: "Reputation can influence access to specialist responsibilities, moderation, research and advisory functions, but cannot increase the weight of an individual's fundamental vote. This is to prevents a system in which the most popular or experienced citizens gradually become a new political aristocracy."
Because that's exactly what representation is nowadays in most so-called democratic countries: an expert system auto-spawning representative experts. That's the definition of aristocracy. The only way to stop this is to give equal access and equal rights to every citizen to adapt laws. The model proposed by Stack Overflow is interesting in this sense.
I imagine a server (or better, a decentralized system) hosting the ODD (the open direct democratic system) where each citizen could connect (i.e. with a phone, a tablet) and easily shape their own country's laws. Directly, with no proxies, which is what the representatives are.
But the danger of this could be the imposition of a kind of technological tyranny where a "disconnected" person would no longer have access to the shaping of laws; so it is important that, as soon as the borders of the digital world are transcended, we implement physical offices to serve as an alternative bridge between the citizen and the ODD without any need for computers or digital devices. This is precisely to ensure democratic access to the ODD because a digital-only way to go is a de facto tyranny in disguise.
Because that's exactly what representation is nowadays in most so-called democratic countries: an expert system auto-spawning representative experts. That's the definition of aristocracy. The only way to stop this is to give equal access and equal rights to every citizen to adapt laws. The model proposed by Stack Overflow is interesting in this sense.
I imagine a server (or better, a decentralized system) hosting the ODD (the open direct democratic system) where each citizen could connect (i.e. with a phone, a tablet) and easily shape their own country's laws. Directly, with no proxies, which is what the representatives are.
But the danger of this could be the imposition of a kind of technological tyranny where a "disconnected" person would no longer have access to the shaping of laws; so it is important that, as soon as the borders of the digital world are transcended, we implement physical offices to serve as an alternative bridge between the citizen and the ODD without any need for computers or digital devices. This is precisely to ensure democratic access to the ODD because a digital-only way to go is a de facto tyranny in disguise.