In a technocracy, a small band of experts get lots of power to manipulate people, nudge them, or engage in social engineering.
the limitations of technocrats and would be more in favor of civil liberties.
Is it possible for you to elaborate more on this or easily provide links to a writeup?
Technocracy to me just means having experts with decision making power or influence, maybe in some institution, presumably with good governance and other checks.
This concept doesn’t immediately lead to thoughts of manipulation, or social engineering.
I’m trying to get educated here—I’m not being contentious, if this is the “Truth” about technocracy and the general mainstream belief, I want to learn about it
Many democrats are technocrats—indeed, the people I argue with, like Christiano, Estlund, and so on, are pretty hardcore technocrats who have been in favor of letting alphabet agencies have lots of dictatorial power during this crisis.
Do you mean Thomas Christiano and David Estlund?
I guess related to the above, it seems like the object level argument really depends on some assumptions.
It is just not clear what is being debated here in this subthread to me and I guess to many other readers of your AMA.
Again, is it possible for you to write just a little bit more on this or provide links to something to get novices up to speed?
I don’t want to get caught up in words. We can use new words:
Schmoop: Small bands of experts in bureaucracies get lots of power to unilaterally decide policy which controls citizens, businesses, etc.
Vleep: During elections, use some sort of knowledge-weighted voting system.
I am in favor of Vleep but oppose Schmoop. Lots of democrats favor Schmoop despite opposing Vleep. The recent failures of various regulatory agencies are failures of Schmoop but not Vleep. Against Democracy defends Vleep but not Schmoop.
Is it possible for you to elaborate more on this or easily provide links to a writeup?
Technocracy to me just means having experts with decision making power or influence, maybe in some institution, presumably with good governance and other checks.
This concept doesn’t immediately lead to thoughts of manipulation, or social engineering.
I’m trying to get educated here—I’m not being contentious, if this is the “Truth” about technocracy and the general mainstream belief, I want to learn about it
Do you mean Thomas Christiano and David Estlund?
I guess related to the above, it seems like the object level argument really depends on some assumptions.
It is just not clear what is being debated here in this subthread to me and I guess to many other readers of your AMA.
Again, is it possible for you to write just a little bit more on this or provide links to something to get novices up to speed?
I don’t want to get caught up in words. We can use new words:
Schmoop: Small bands of experts in bureaucracies get lots of power to unilaterally decide policy which controls citizens, businesses, etc.
Vleep: During elections, use some sort of knowledge-weighted voting system.
I am in favor of Vleep but oppose Schmoop. Lots of democrats favor Schmoop despite opposing Vleep. The recent failures of various regulatory agencies are failures of Schmoop but not Vleep. Against Democracy defends Vleep but not Schmoop.