Disrupting Democracy for Good
Channel: Flux Party
Date: 2016-12-22

This is a reproduction of the talk Max Kaye (co-founder of Flux) gave at the Wired Festival Brasil on the 3rd of December 2016.

During the talk we cover 
- the basics of political power 
- why dictatorships evolve into democracies 
- what happens after representative democracy stops working
- why direct democracy and liquid democracy aren't better than representative democracy
- a brief touch on what makes good explanations
- why the pursuit of democracy should be prosperity via the creation of new knowledge
- the principle of optimism
- a brief introduction to Issue Based Direct Democracy

Feedback welcome

Cited material: (all highly recommended)
- Rules for rulers - CGP Grey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
- The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch (2011) - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity
- The Dictators Handbook - Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, et al (2011) - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11612989-the-dictator-s-handbook