Good question and I don’t have a good answer. My intuition is that democracies are more dependent on transparency and that lower complexity and higher security would enable more distribution in control.
I intuitively agree on transparency being important for democracies, but then I see "lower complexity" and "transparency" as both being opposed to "higher security". Taking for example the secure enclave you mention, its whole point is to bolster security through removing transparency via a complex hardware and software system.
You (and probably a lot of tech nerds) need to remember democracy is a social challenge, not a technological challenge. What applies to technology does not necessarily apply to society.
The more opaque and complicated you make so-called "democracy", the less the electorate have faith that it is fair and representative. Simplicity and transparency is security, security that democracy is working in a way everyone can and must agree with even if they don't necessarily like it.
AI slop is perfect for reducing usefulness of transparency: you can generate so much bullshit nobody will ever be able to discern what is worth looking at even if you can have access to everything. We aren't there... yet (but perhaps ask Google how is their search product doing in the past couple years). I'd love to hear what Shannon would have to say about this situation.
TeMPOraL|1 year ago
Dalewyn|1 year ago
The more opaque and complicated you make so-called "democracy", the less the electorate have faith that it is fair and representative. Simplicity and transparency is security, security that democracy is working in a way everyone can and must agree with even if they don't necessarily like it.
baq|1 year ago