The reason to fix voting power is that post-AGI, rapid population growth will become possible (whether of digital citizens, or biological ones via artificial wombs and robot child-rearers). If project voting were one-person one-vote, then whichever country grew its population the fastest could seize power.
This seems like a consideration against empowering democracies more broadly, if democracies would be controlled by the internal factions which grow their populations fastest.
It seems plausible to me that if you consider the universe of modern democratic nations, the first principal component of political disagreement within that citizenry is likely to be very intranational. (People often agree more with ideologically similar foreigners than with ideologically dissimilar co-nationals.)
In the same way US citizens often view state politics with an eye to affecting federal politics, citizens in democratic nations might view their national politics with an eye to affecting global governance. You might essentially be left with a single global polity with a single point of failure.
You argue that democracies are designed and tested to govern political power. But this sort of weird hypothetical seems fairly far from the regime that democracies have been designed and tested for.
I would suggest a very different approach: trying to move away from single-point-of-failure to the greatest possible extent, and designing global governance so it can withstand as many simultaneous failures as possible. It’s especially important to reduce vulnerability to correlated failures.
This seems like a consideration against empowering democracies more broadly, if democracies would be controlled by the internal factions which grow their populations fastest.
It seems plausible to me that if you consider the universe of modern democratic nations, the first principal component of political disagreement within that citizenry is likely to be very intranational. (People often agree more with ideologically similar foreigners than with ideologically dissimilar co-nationals.)
In the same way US citizens often view state politics with an eye to affecting federal politics, citizens in democratic nations might view their national politics with an eye to affecting global governance. You might essentially be left with a single global polity with a single point of failure.
You argue that democracies are designed and tested to govern political power. But this sort of weird hypothetical seems fairly far from the regime that democracies have been designed and tested for.
I would suggest a very different approach: trying to move away from single-point-of-failure to the greatest possible extent, and designing global governance so it can withstand as many simultaneous failures as possible. It’s especially important to reduce vulnerability to correlated failures.