Democracy in the 22nd Century

• In the 22nd century democracy elections will be algorithms, politicians will be cats.
• Yusuke Narita
• Amazon
• 2022-07-06

from [/omoikane/chat page 3#64ae3762cafbcd0000cf759a](https://scrapbox.io/omoikane/chat page 3#64ae3762cafbcd0000cf759a) 2023-07-12

• What was said in “Democracy in the 22nd Century Elections Become Algorithms, Politicians Become Cats” seems soooo appropriate now that I’m listening to the broad listening story.
  • Since the book came out before the ChatGPT festival, I feel that the content of the book was not well understood by the public.
  • The idea itself is fully automated unconscious democracy by fully automating broad listening, but since ChatGPT had not appeared, it seems to have been evaluated as “irresponsible”, “delusional”, and “dreamer”.
  • interesting

Young people are a minority.

• 10,000 Elected Nomads p.144

  • nomad

• Free Private Cities p.146

  • Schumpeter. 　 competitiveness p.147

  • It was Joseph Schumpeter in “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy” (1942) who precipitated competitiveness as a desirable democratic characteristic. The most widely used arena of competition is elections.

  • → Assumption that democracy is about elections

  • The essence of Schumpeter’s argument was not the election itself, but the competition it created and the selection based on quality.

• Dahl pluralism.

  • Making Elections Objective

• Competitive nature of the old state threatened by the new state through competition

Democracy without elections

• Elections” are downgraded from “the only channel for public opinion data” to “one of many channels. - Digital natives don’t think that once-every-four-years upload bandwidth is enough.

I’d like to know more about the experiment on p.170.

• Objective external classification criteria are less important, and answers to subjective questions are the deciding factor in confidence in the ruling party.
  • If that’s the case, then clustering can be done without taking sensitive external data, and we’re getting closer to a Birdwatch kind of thing, aren’t we?

Deregulation of general will

• Avoid dependence on one channel
• The ensemble learning metaphor

Problems with [direct democracy

• After all, it’s “conscious electoral democracy” that forces people to pay decision costs.
  • We can transfer it to an algorithm.
  • That’s where unconscious data democracy comes in.

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