Hamish MacEwan

We will probably never know in what sense he meant it, for poets do not write to be understood. - Richard Feynman.

Liquid Democracy

Advantages:

  • solves the “ordinary people have no time to learn about every issue” problem.
  • Can be thought of as RepresentativeDemocracy?, but finer-grained: you don’t have to elect just one guy to represent you on every issue, you can have different specialists for different issues.
  • The vote could be “live”- Not just one tally of the votes. Rather, the vote can “ongoing.” In this system, you could change your vote at any time.
  • It will be easier to have an effect on the political process. Right now, you might care about specific issues, but you can only exert a major effect by helping to get a candidate elected. If you fail to get the candidate elected, the effort you expended is mostly lost. And if you succeed, most of the effect of your effort will go into influencing other issues that the candidate stood for, rather than the issues that you cared about.