Re: [WDDM] ReQuest for Defining "a bottom-up origin"

["M. Kolar" <wddm(at)mkolar.org>]

P.S.

Pras Anand wrote:
> imagine a thousand people vote on whether to build an earthquake
> generator or not. 10 of those thousand know it is a terrible idea and
> will bring the mountain down and destroy the town etc. the other 900
> vote for it because of the promises of gold.
>
> They build it and the town is destroyed by a collapsing mountain. They
> all die.
>
> This is democracy.

This is not democracy. What you describe could hardly happen in real democracy.
Democracy is not about some mechanical voting. Real democracy is about the same
information available to everybody, democracy is about understanding, looking
for best solutions, achieving consent.

I thought that your Social Computer project aims at achieving such
understanding, at helping to participate everybody in decision making. Now it
seems more like it is about creating/supporting some sort of knowledge elite?

Mirek