From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 22:03:25 MST
>
> Intersting, Emlyn. Are you arguing for a more Greek style
> "direct democracy"
> enabled by intelligence augmentation and multiple and fast
> communication?
>
> Towards Ascension
> Avatar Polymorph
Yes indeed I am, to the extent that government is necessary. OTOH, the
anarcho-capitalist crowd will tell you that the market can do whatever the
govt can do, but better, and I expect they'd say that IA and real
communication would only strengthen this. I'm not an anarcho-captialist, but
only given the current human condition; in the future context presented I
think the optimal style of organisation is very much an open question;
anarcho capitalism might work, looking very much like that trading-style
distributed computing architecture (called something starting with A? I
can't remember enough to google it :-( ).
I certainly think that the kind of modularity & specialisation that we rely
on will be unnecessary to beings who can comprehend orders-of-magnitude more
complex systems in one mental grab. But then, the society should become
correspondingly more complex and difficult to model, so maybe I'm wrong. I
do think that it is very difficult to justify a model with a small executive
at the top.
Emlyn
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