Really interesting piece. For me, you nail the crux of the argument when you write, "But a lot of democracy is about defending interests, and doing it right involves creating bridging organizations like unions. Such organizations don’t represent pre-given individual interests so much as they explain and create collective ones."
It's often difficult given most explanations strong desire for micro-foundations to accept Goffman's missive that we should not speak of "men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men". Organizations and the process of organizing creates both the contexts for creation of interests and the power to bring them into being. From this perspective, the OpenAI democracy project really does look pretty silly.
OpenAI’s notion of a democratic process for deciding the rules and laws that govern AI, seems rather reminiscent of Meta’s Potemkin independent content moderation body the Facebook Oversight Board --which I always thought has the most perfect acronym given that to FOB someone off is to persuade them to accept something that is of a low quality or different from what they really wanted
Really interesting piece. For me, you nail the crux of the argument when you write, "But a lot of democracy is about defending interests, and doing it right involves creating bridging organizations like unions. Such organizations don’t represent pre-given individual interests so much as they explain and create collective ones."
It's often difficult given most explanations strong desire for micro-foundations to accept Goffman's missive that we should not speak of "men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men". Organizations and the process of organizing creates both the contexts for creation of interests and the power to bring them into being. From this perspective, the OpenAI democracy project really does look pretty silly.
OpenAI’s notion of a democratic process for deciding the rules and laws that govern AI, seems rather reminiscent of Meta’s Potemkin independent content moderation body the Facebook Oversight Board --which I always thought has the most perfect acronym given that to FOB someone off is to persuade them to accept something that is of a low quality or different from what they really wanted
Absolute barnburner here. Outstanding.