Liquid democracy proposes a radically different model of democracy.

· Bits and Bobs 5/18/26
  • Liquid democracy proposes a radically different model of democracy.
    • Everyone has full agency over their votes.
    • However, on a given topic, they can delegate their vote to someone else, whose judgment they trust and whose values they are aligned with.
    • That person can delegate the votes delegated to them, and so on.
    • Instead of people making seat-of-their-pants decisions on tactical things they don't understand (which fundamentally selects for optics over substance), they'd make longer-term decisions on who they trust.
    • At any point, people can change their vote or delegate.
    • One downside is that it requires more cognitive labor.
    • But LLMs can help with the cognitive labor!

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