Excellent post, a great starting point, but we must go deeper :) For instance:
Voting is a very low-bandwidth signaling scheme. There’s room for arbitrary expressions of preferences and plans.
Most implementations of voting are also cast as irreversible. We’d want room for dynamic discovery of the aggregate preference by the individuals.
The “collective” won’t always have a coherent preference; for instance, if the individuals are locked into a zero-sum game. (Let alone if the individuals’ preferences are incoherent to start with!) I’d like a theory that would output “there is no coherent collective here, you should just go your own ways and agree on a transactional relationship instead”.
Excellent post, a great starting point, but we must go deeper :) For instance:
Voting is a very low-bandwidth signaling scheme. There’s room for arbitrary expressions of preferences and plans.
Most implementations of voting are also cast as irreversible. We’d want room for dynamic discovery of the aggregate preference by the individuals.
The “collective” won’t always have a coherent preference; for instance, if the individuals are locked into a zero-sum game. (Let alone if the individuals’ preferences are incoherent to start with!) I’d like a theory that would output “there is no coherent collective here, you should just go your own ways and agree on a transactional relationship instead”.