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Vitalik Buterin
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This may be the strongest case for authoritarianism: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-liberal-democracy-might-lose Basically: the war for people's hearts and minds has no stable equilibrium except local hegemony of one dominant elite, much like (and for the same reasons as) what Hobbes pointed out for regular war.
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m_j_r
@m-j-r.eth
"hearts and minds" will remain more capricious than any one system can handle, and authoritarianism is countered by risk/reward of stealthily defecting.
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