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.
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.