Yet again more arguments for decentralised systems that are guaranteed to freak out a lot of people who are very much attached to centralised models (which we know are fragile and catastrophic when they fail). But, y'know... screw logic because tradition. 
-Renegade
It's an interesting idea. Sorta like the old Discordian principle which states that Discordian cabals need to "stand apart
with each" other if the day of liberation is ever to come - or the eschaton immanentized - whichever comes first.
That said, I'm not ready to say that DAOs (and all the other decentralized/double-blind/distributed/neocurrency/cryptography and network ideas) by themselves will bring us into Paradise. No matter how well-designed a system, ways can be found to game it. And somebody inevitably will.
Which brings us back to the "people problem" and the need for "men/persons of goodwill" to really make it happen.
The thing that makes me wonder how likely
that will be is listening to the people you usually find involved in launching these "new" systems. They're hardly men of goodwill. Their attitude towards others is not very cordial. They love to casually refer to the general population as
fucktards,
sheeple, clueless, and stupid - secure in an unshakable belief in their own intellectual and moral superiority. Most I've met or talked to are unapologetically out for themselves - although they'll cloak it somewhat under the banner of "enlightened self-interest" and argue that "a rising tide floats all boats." Funny how much that way of thinking mirrors that of the old "trickle down" economic argument.
So...instead of the benefits trickling down, under the new system they'll now trickle up?
Hmm...not getting warm fuzzies over any of this.
With multi-signature in Bitcoin, you no longer have that same single point of failure. Sure, you can turn over your private keys, but that won't help when more than 1 key is needed.
So the thugs then need to go out and kidnap someone else and get their private keys as well.
-Renegade
Um...how is that a
significant problem or challenge with the resources the average national government has at it's disposal? Arrest one person or sweep up a hundred. Sign an order to waterboard one person (or twenty) - it's all in a day's work for some
apparatchik.
Talking about doing things that would make life more difficult for thugs tells me (on some level) that the person saying it still believes there are
enforceable rules in effect. Well..I got some bad news for him/her: There
aren't.
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