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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (30 children)

Another dumb take from Yud on twitter (xcancel.com):

@ESYudkowsky: The worst common electoral system after First Past The Post - possibly even a worse one - is the parliamentary republic, with its absurd alliances and frequently falling governments.

A possible amendment is to require 60% approval to replace a Chief Executive; who otherwise serves indefinitely, and appoints their own successor if no 60% majority can be scraped together. The parliament's main job would be legislation, not seizing the spoils of the executive branch of government on a regular basis.

Anything like this ever been tried historically? (ChatGPT was incapable of understanding the question.)

  1. Parliamentary Republic is a government system not a electoral system, many such republics do in fact use FPTP.
  2. Not highlighted in any of the replies in the thread, but "60% approval" is—I suspect deliberately—not "60% votes", it's way more nebulous and way more susceptible to Executive/Special-Interest-power influence, no Yud polls are not a substitute for actual voting, no Yud you can't have a "Reputation" system where polling agencies are retro-actively punished when the predicted results don't align with—what would be rare—voting.
  3. What you are describing is just a monarchy of not wanting to deal with pesky accountability beyond fuzzy exploitable popularity contest (I mean even kings were deposed when they pissed off enough of the population) you fascist little twat.
  4. Why are you asking ChatGPT then twitter instead of spending more than two minutes thinking about this, and doing any kind of real research whatsoever?
[–] rook@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like he’s been huffing too much of whatever the neoreactionaries offgas. Seems to be the inevitable end result of a certain kind of techbro refusing to learn from history, and imagining themselves to be some sort of future grand vizier in the new regime…

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m seriously wondering how much of yud’s most recent crap is an attempt to grift for thiel money and right-wing attention by poorly imitating Yarvin

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

remember that he was on the Thiel gravy train then they broke over Trump. Now it's Vitalik Buterin and Ben Delo from the crypto contingent.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

It makes sense that he would want back on the only grift train that ever treated him so well. Post-Trump/Vance Thielworld is likely to be a particularly sad place, though.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

Hey, we now know that you can even become a VP pick if you grift hard enough, there are real prizes to be won now

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