Couldn’t this be solved by having it be anonymous? Maybe a central government server records who is deferring to whom, but doesn’t tell you who in particular is deferring to you. Maybe it tells you roughly how many people have deferred to you but has some error and lag so you can’t use it to figure out whether any particular person did.
Or maybe that + making it illegal to buy votes would be sufficient to keep this to manageable levels.
Yeah, it seems quite possible that measures like this will be sufficient. On the one hand, it feels like you’re fighting a market, so the market will try and wiggle out of whatever constraints you put on it. On the other hand, what we do today is indeed sufficient to almost completely eliminate this problem (except for how advertisement dollars can sorta buy votes). So it seems possible to do fairly well.
Couldn’t this be solved by having it be anonymous? Maybe a central government server records who is deferring to whom, but doesn’t tell you who in particular is deferring to you. Maybe it tells you roughly how many people have deferred to you but has some error and lag so you can’t use it to figure out whether any particular person did.
Or maybe that + making it illegal to buy votes would be sufficient to keep this to manageable levels.
Yeah, it seems quite possible that measures like this will be sufficient. On the one hand, it feels like you’re fighting a market, so the market will try and wiggle out of whatever constraints you put on it. On the other hand, what we do today is indeed sufficient to almost completely eliminate this problem (except for how advertisement dollars can sorta buy votes). So it seems possible to do fairly well.