I am now wishing that this article had been written before I submitted my post. It points to new and existing efforts to put collective intelligence toward coordination and governance. It also makes the case for what I was trying to get across in a much more persuasive and rigorous way:
https://www.wired.com/story/collective-intelligence-democracy/
I suppose that if I could have seen this before submitting, I would have changed the spirit of my post to be something along the lines of “make use of collective intelligence systems to broadly manage EA giving, providing an example of efficient governing”, or something similar. I still think it makes sense to find a way to engage a large number of people committed to working together in new and experimental ways toward more coordinated and more useful outcomes.
I’d say that the spirit of the post is less to suggest a solution than to point out the perhaps fruitful process of experimenting toward a solution. The idea of weighting a decision-making process toward more qualified decision makers (however that is determined) makes sense to me, as does experimentation with untried formal systems of managing collective intelligence and cooperative mitigation of catastrophic risk (some academic examples of which are cited in the post). Also, I’d say that the proposal is less about replacing aspects of governments than it is about providing a clear example of more effective governance, one that could perhaps influence existing means of governance in a number of ways.