[Bluestein]

> It may be implementation specific as well.

I would posit it is. Totally.-

PS. For all we know, the first thing a superhumanly intelligent AGI might do is "forcibly-self-organize" us into a DAO, doing away with the political system. I, for one, would welcome that :)

> The Sci-fi part of my brain finds parallels in feudalism

Elsethread - when talking abou how the Mongols almost overtook Europe - the claim was made that - to a point - part of the reason the hordes had to stop is that "descentralized" (as opposed to centralized clan-leader-ruled) feudal structures made it hard to make advances.-

... so feudalism came up, as a somewhat advanced form of decentralization. Which was neat.-