[lucideer]

It's become extremely common in tech discourse these days to label anything anyone sees that involves any level of "direct democracy" / "community consensus" (both age-old pre-computers ideas) as "crypto-esque", as if Bitcoin was the first time humans applied consensus.

[rhyme-boss]

It's a concept with many names. When I studied economics in college there was a course called social choice theory, which was about all kinds of "preference aggregation" and voting systems.

[alkonaut]

I believe fact checking should be done by experts, contracts should be written and enforced by humans, politics should be left to elected politicians, and and central banks are the least bad stewards of currencies.

I don't think I'm alone to share all of this not-so-closely-related beliefs, so there perhaps a connection. I guess first of all its rooted in a fundamental trust of humans and human institutions more than anything. I think if you ask people "do you think politicians can generally be trusted to work for the common good of their constituents" then those who strongly agree probably also agree to some extents on the above issues.

[lucideer]

> I don't think I'm alone

I doubt you're alone but my suspicion would be that you're in a very small minority.

> a fundamental trust of humans and human institutions

These are two separate things. In general, those who primarily trust the former do not place the same level of trust in the latter, and vice versa. Finding those who trust in both seems a rare thing.

> I think if you ask people "do you think politicians can generally be trusted to work for the common good of their constituents"

It's been my observation that many people who vote do so on a "least worst" basis. National statistics bodies collecting data on levels of trust in public representatives rarely post figures above 50%.

[eric_cc]

So you’re a self-aware villain. That’s pretty neat.

[alkonaut]

Elaborate?

[lucideer]

Appeal to authority is generally classified as a subconscious flaw. When its conscious & deliberate, given the history of authoritarianism in the world, it does come across... oddly.