You started by quoting Yvain about the major advantage of democracy:
A democracy provides a Schelling point, … an option which might or might not be the best, but which is not too bad and which everyone agrees on in order to stop fighting.
Does your proposed system keep that advantage?
While your 1% contemplates the best way to lift one of them to supremacy, what’s going to stop the 99% from showing up and grunting “Fuck that shit, you guys are out. Scram!”?
If people agree the test is fair and the randomization is fair, I’m not convinced it would not be stable after a generation or two. Pure sortition does retain that advantage, the IQ filter reduces this but the filter could be adjusted to increase stability. For example, say it took only the 50th percentile. At this level, coordination would be difficult as no one would want to publicly admit they weren’t eligible for sortition. Perhaps this would remain true if only the 90th percentile were selected, if not the 99th.
If people agree the test is fair and the randomization is fair
The question is whether people agree the whole system is fair.
Let’s imagine that I’m a person below the whatever IQ cutoff you prefer. Please explain to me (ELI5, preferably) how your proposed system is fair to me.
You started by quoting Yvain about the major advantage of democracy:
Does your proposed system keep that advantage?
While your 1% contemplates the best way to lift one of them to supremacy, what’s going to stop the 99% from showing up and grunting “Fuck that shit, you guys are out. Scram!”?
If people agree the test is fair and the randomization is fair, I’m not convinced it would not be stable after a generation or two. Pure sortition does retain that advantage, the IQ filter reduces this but the filter could be adjusted to increase stability. For example, say it took only the 50th percentile. At this level, coordination would be difficult as no one would want to publicly admit they weren’t eligible for sortition. Perhaps this would remain true if only the 90th percentile were selected, if not the 99th.
The question is whether people agree the whole system is fair.
Let’s imagine that I’m a person below the whatever IQ cutoff you prefer. Please explain to me (ELI5, preferably) how your proposed system is fair to me.