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ObiWanFrijoles | 3 years ago

Unfortunately, people don't trust what they can't understand easily either, which is why I think math based voting techniques aren't so popular.

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throwaway0a5e|3 years ago

Trust is a requirement of a voting system (or any other system that is entrusted with controlling who will government) if we want a stable society.

So we either need to teach people to understand it or find a way to make them trust something they don't understand.

The religion playbook is useful for the latter approach but if the goal is to make people trust what they don't understand but we've been doing pretty much the opposite real hard for the past ~10yr.

mrguyorama|3 years ago

Our current system is stupidly simple and yet a quarter of the country still doesn't trust it.