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Desmond_FanClub t1_j1as8rx wrote

Epistemic humility is a thing of the past

Just a reminder reddit; Technocracy is explicitly anti-democratic

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shami1kemi1 t1_j1d05pz wrote

>Just a reminder reddit; Technocracy is explicitly anti-democratic

Well yeah, that's the entire point of it. This can be seen as far back as Plato's Republic, where the idea of the Philosopher-King can be seen as a proto-technocratic idea of having leadership come not from military might or plebiscite, but from wisdom, knowledge, and intelligence.

Of course nowadays with the increased complexity of possible decisions, this idea would be replaced by having multiple experts from different fields making decisions about things that their field gives them the competency to decide on. Say, a military strategist or a veteran general would do defence decisions or an economist would do economics decisions for example. I'd even argue that this would increase epistemic humility and reduce the chances of epistemic trespassing, because unlike in a democracy where a voter needs to be knowledgeable in most things to be able to make a good decision, in this model the expert really needs to only know about their own field, and would refer to their peers from other fields.

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