What's the best Political System?

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America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

Nathilus posted:

Another vote for omnibenevolent ai here. The problem with benevolent dictatorship is that it's not a plan so much as a wish. How do you get that nice, smart person into power and keep him there? What happens when he croaks? Rome tried this at various times and its just not stable. Besides you run into all the usual issues concerning human corruptability anyway. Program an ai to govern. Give it a sarcastic sense of humor so people dont feel alienated, and to keep things interesting. Wahlah. Perfect governance and religion too if you want to play it that way.

I don't know why we assume a machine made by humans is going to be free from human flaws, or that its morality will be compatible with ours without essentially encoding our current forms of governance (and all its problems) into a more efficient, easily enforced and more entrenched format.
Essentially, Barrack Obama but he's God.

America Inc. fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Sep 24, 2015

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America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

DrProsek posted:

THE BEST POLITICAL SYSTEM IS NONE BUT DOOM! DOOM RENDERS ALL POLITICS OBSOLETE! THIS THREAD IS IRRELEVANT BECAUSE NONE WHO POST IN IT ARE GREATER THAN DOOM!

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America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

rudatron posted:

Unless you can make everyone below perfect as well, which is just as impossible.

Easy

# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 12:09

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

Effectronica posted:

if you want a political system that really feeds your hatred of all your fellow man, you've got to go for one that leaves them powerless while telling them they're in charge.

You're probated so it's not like you're going to be able to respond, but this assumes people actually want power. For your average citizen, representative democracy requires the least amount of involvement with government, at least compared to authoritarian governments or participatory democracy.
We live in a representative democracy where hierarchy produces unequal representation (not everyone is equal, nor created equal), and where most people don't even care to make themselves represented, so they aren't.
E: The problem is not with government, it is with people.

America Inc. fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Sep 28, 2015

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America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

rudatron posted:

Thankfully, the irrefutable ~~science of marxism-leninism~~ power of jesus can save everyone.

Trent posted:

I generally totally get and agree with what you are saying, but that came out of left field.

Maybe not states, but maybe branches of government. If you could actually empirically test for the best policy implementations is it necessary for every Representative and Senator to vote on pieces of legislation? Especially when ACA and Dodd-Frank contained many provisions that were tailored to specialists and not your average Congressman.

America Inc. fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Sep 30, 2015

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