Re to Mirek and Pras: [WDDM] ReQuest for Defining "a bottom-up origin"

[Filia den Hollander <holla(at)xs4all.nl>]

I agree with Mirek here.

Moreover, I believe that democracy is about SHARING ideas, and the trust that the adequate ones will prove themselves in time, as well as the trust that the ones with a good concept but imperfect, will improve themselves BECAUSE they are opened up to others. If no transparency is given, then we might as well not buy the idea for the inherent concept is elitist.


Kind regards,
Filia den Hollander




op 17-11-2006 11:01 schreef M. Kolar op wddm(at)mkolar.org:

> P.S.
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> 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.
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>> This is democracy.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Mirek
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