Ex ante remedies for the downsides of representative democracy were not technologically possible when democratic representation was designed, so its downsides such as corruption, bribery, and bias had to be tolerated as inevitable tradeoffs.
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Ex-ante remedies to overcome these downsides of representative democracies were not technologically possible.
Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867
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early democracies facing physical, practical, and technological limitations
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