No one sensible could possibly mind a benevolent dictator who was also always right, Moldbug suggests:
Distributed systems are hard. It’s amazing when they work at all. We shouldn’t be surprised to see failure modes. But nor should we have to live with, or be ruled by, pervasive error.
So we should admit that distributed despotism is caused by the way power poisons truth markets. Putting a truth market in power is unsound political engineering. A previously reliable machine will start to evolve pretty lies. This is a slow and degenerative process which cannot be reversed.
Putting a church in charge of the government is not putting God in charge of the government. Putting a truth market in charge of the government is not putting truth in charge of the government.
Distributed systems are hard? “It’s amazing when they work at all.”?
Specious tripe. After trudging through that article, I feel as though several thousand neurons died needlessly, for I’ve rarely seen such turgid tripe collected all in one place. It’s like a black hole of vacuity, sucking in the light and energy from the reader.
There’s no beauty to distributed systems–They just work, and they work in the absence of being “set up”. If there’s a system to be made of anything, it will generally self-organize around it, provided the users aren’t complete sociopathic dolts. Granted, it takes a certain mindset and culture, but the end-state of things isn’t generally going to be the Lord of the Flies–Things will eventually self-organize. You may not like how it works, but it will be optimized to local conditions and what the users want out of it.