governments are rudimentary organizational tools used by humans to pool resources then decide how those resources are used to complete tasks

so every governmental job can be replaced by clever crypto + smart contract voting systems that are cheaper and more transparent

this is an inevitability

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The only problem is externality pricing.

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I view it through the same perspective as the education system

before internet access to educational materials was centralized and the job of teaching largely went through universities

now, access to information is decentralized and universities are far less important (and trending down in importance)

I'm optimistic about transparency, credibly neutral systems, and more efficient governance.

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my view is "inevitable unless governments forcefully kill free access to crypto"

which is possible! So not completely inevitable

Not sure it’s inevitable, but it does feel like the logical conclusion

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re first point: yep. it's actually quite hard. for the same reason finding out which drugs should be approved is hard.

Re second point. I doubt that part. At least not governments of the current rules

I think most of the complexity of government organizations is a product of their own doing

they are monopolies safe from market forces, there is nothing driving them to be efficient

and we've already succeeded in doing arguably their most important job more efficiently (crypto is money without government)

I think you’re underestimating the complexity of government organizations and overestimating the ability of technologists to design governance systems.

An opposite take is that governments will expand to create physical and social jobs to employ more people when knowledge work is largely made redundant by AI.