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> I can instruct or employ someone (or something) to do this, but then ultimately they will make the decision for me. It's only plausible to do this at scale, unless I'm wealthy enough to employ my own personal food-taster, so it makes sense to band together with other users with similar requirements.

And here we run into the issue that economists and political scientists call "the Principal-Agent problem"[0].

Whether we're talking about the management of a firm acting in the interests of owners, elected officials acting in the interests of voters, or moderators of communication platforms acting in the interest of users, this isn't a solved problem.

And in fact, that last has extra wrinkles since there is not agreement on just whose interests the moderator is supposed to prioritize (there can be similar disagreement regarding company management, but at least the disagreement itself is far better defined).

This is deeply messy, and as hard as it is now, it is only going to get worse with every additional human that is able to access and participate in these systems.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_prob...