Every four year, if you only vote once from eight candidates, it’s just three bits of information uploaded every four years. If you have a referendum with five different propositions, it’s just five bits uploaded. But these uploaded bits result in decisions that affect everyday people in a very quick way. So, it’s like having a very high-speed download, but no uploading or very limited uploading. But when there are societal scale risks, like the pandemic, the ‘Infodemic’, the generative AI caused scams, and computer virus, we need to know what’s happening on the ground every day, even every hour. With no good uploading and only a way to course correct every four years, it is impossible for democracy to solve emerging problems at a scale and a speed as they become.

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