It seems to me a bit strange to say that an online scene that’s fulled by the pandemic driving people to communicate online via going to each other’s podcasts has a stronger understanding of the importance of local community.
The pandemic is pushing people to connect online, but many of the main figures are very focused shifting more towards local community, although most of the projects haven’t really spun up yet.
The Deep Code Dialogos with Jordan Hall which is supposed to be partly about the future of governance seems to have gone till now without anyone speaking about experiences and lessons drawn from local governance.
Jordan Hall has his Civium project which is trying to combine the best of local and global community.
The plan of the LessWrong team is to focus more energy on building local community
They seem focused on building the online community from what I can tell.
Metamoderna sees the state as the central unit we should think about in our efforts of governance when we speaks about democratication politics.
It’s hard to make generalisations about a whole scene and there will be exceptions. Metamoderna wants to reform the state, but I think I heard an interview where Hanzi said that he thought reforms were more likely at a local level and could then be copied to higher levels.
Jordan Hall has his Civium project which is trying to combine the best of local and global community.
If that’s what you point to for a best of thinking about local community, I do think it’s an illustration of them thinking badly about it.
Nothing is that is about learning from existing community governance.
Metamoderna wants to reform the state, but I think I heard an interview where Hanzi said that he thought reforms were more likely at a local level and could then be copied to higher levels.
In the book Hanzi presents a paradigm where there’s on the one side the government which is subject to democratic control via formal process and on the other hand there’s civil society (Gemeinschaft) that’s informal.
Regardles about whether or not you care about changing the way states are governed this illustrates lacking to understand the importance of local governance. Various civil society organizations actually need democratic governance.
Student self-governance has for example properties that make it a perfect ground for trying out new ways of doing democracy. I’m personally involved in shaping local governance at Wikidata.
Neither changing the way student self-governance works nor shaping local governance at a Wikimedia project works is as sexy as changing how a state is governed. It’s not as influential and that’s way it’s easier accessible and easy to influence.
Changing student self-governance means that you change how a good portion of future politicians gets socialized in politics.
Hanzi claims that there are no processes in democratic states to change the way we do democracy. That’s being ignorant of the fact that the laws of how we do democracy are not fixed but there are democratic processes to change constitutions.
From the EA/rationality perspective that allowed the The Center for Election Science to get approval voting approved in Fargo, ND and St. Louis. That’s EA money moving to put ideas about how voting should work that you find on LessWrong into practice.
The pandemic is pushing people to connect online, but many of the main figures are very focused shifting more towards local community, although most of the projects haven’t really spun up yet.
Jordan Hall has his Civium project which is trying to combine the best of local and global community.
They seem focused on building the online community from what I can tell.
It’s hard to make generalisations about a whole scene and there will be exceptions. Metamoderna wants to reform the state, but I think I heard an interview where Hanzi said that he thought reforms were more likely at a local level and could then be copied to higher levels.
If that’s what you point to for a best of thinking about local community, I do think it’s an illustration of them thinking badly about it.
Nothing is that is about learning from existing community governance.
In the book Hanzi presents a paradigm where there’s on the one side the government which is subject to democratic control via formal process and on the other hand there’s civil society (Gemeinschaft) that’s informal.
Regardles about whether or not you care about changing the way states are governed this illustrates lacking to understand the importance of local governance. Various civil society organizations actually need democratic governance.
Student self-governance has for example properties that make it a perfect ground for trying out new ways of doing democracy. I’m personally involved in shaping local governance at Wikidata.
Neither changing the way student self-governance works nor shaping local governance at a Wikimedia project works is as sexy as changing how a state is governed. It’s not as influential and that’s way it’s easier accessible and easy to influence.
Changing student self-governance means that you change how a good portion of future politicians gets socialized in politics.
Hanzi claims that there are no processes in democratic states to change the way we do democracy. That’s being ignorant of the fact that the laws of how we do democracy are not fixed but there are democratic processes to change constitutions.
From the EA/rationality perspective that allowed the The Center for Election Science to get approval voting approved in Fargo, ND and St. Louis. That’s EA money moving to put ideas about how voting should work that you find on LessWrong into practice.