
⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Uncoordinated voters on average cancel one another out and thus the total influence of 10,000 completely independent voters is much smaller than the influence of one person with 10,000 votes.[429]
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The demands of ⿻ identity systems supporting some of the above suggest that while voting in new transnational configurations is imaginable, systems of voting are unlikely any time soon to truly reach global legitimacy.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
g0v spin-off project “Cofacts,” in which participating citizens rapidly respond to both trending social media content and to messages from private channels forwarded to a public comment box for requested response. Recent research shows that these systems can typically respond faster, equally accurately and more engagingly to rumors than can profess
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Alignment assemblies:
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
vTaiwan was its collaboration with OpenAI’s Democratic Input to AI project in 2023.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Polis shows the clusters of opinion that exist and highlights statements that bridge them. This approach facilitates both consensus formation and a better understanding of the lines of division.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Both threats strike at the heart of democracy, which, as Alexis de Tocqueville famously highlighted in Democracy in America, depends on deep and diverse, non-market, decentralized social and civil connections to thrive
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
placing the weight of government behind the g0v practice of hackathons through the Presidential Hackathon (PH) and a variety of supporting institutions.