Interesting idea, Dave! I appreciate that you've tried to figure out a solution. Most people sit around complaining, but not doing anything about it.
I quickly scanned through your document, so please forgive me if I haven't gotten the following right.
I do think the lowest tier (or maybe the 2 lowest tiers could be better solved with AI, by consolidating each citizen's anonymous vote or opinion without emotion or personal attitude/judgment about their neighbors, and without anyone having to volunteer. It avoids the popularity contest or pressure to vote for, or against, your friends. It's hard enough to get a board together for an HOA,., much less 200 people for one neighborhood. The AI agent would act as the unbiased rep, handing off the best total ideas/solutions for the neighborhood based on real opinions by the citizens.
My Response
Suzanne: Thank you for your thoughtful comment. You introduced a new angle and I had to reflect a little. Let me go off on a tangent.
About a year ago, I asked an AI this question: "Who is Dave Volek?"
There are at least three “Dave Voleks” out there. Somehow the AI identified me as the topic of its essay, not another Dave Volek. It did peg me as the inventor of a new democracy. Some of its facts around the topic were accurate. Some a little fuzzy. Some were outright wrong. For example, this AI said my ideas are being discussed in many places in academia. This clearly is not happening. I believe the AI was trying to flatter me, for reasons I do not understand.
Here is the article I wrote about this experience:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=29&id=401
I bring this point up because I believe AI's are--or will be--manipulated by nefarious forces with nefarious agendas. So I don't see AI's as being a solution to democratic voting or polling.
Nothing is more clear than a paper ballot that says: "This is who I voted for."
In case my suspicions about AI are later proven unfounded, I will offer this explanation. In the TDG, each citizen can bring up concerns about governance to the neighborhood representative, who does not live too far away. If the representative gets a few such complaints, he/she will be reporting to this at the next highest tier meeting. If more neighborhood representatives report similarly, the concern moves up the tiers fairly quickly. This is much more organic than the top tier reading reports generated by AIs.
I sense some reluctance with many, many neighborhood elections the TDG will have to conduct. If the TDG were to be implemented tomorrow, and the first elections were a week later, there would be enough chaos to discredit the whole concept of the TDG.
The solution for these many, small TDG elections is time and practice. The TDG will not be implemented overnight. Each local TDG will start with five to 10 members, not the whole neighborhood voting. If these voters find something not working well with these early elections, they can make changes. As more neighbors join the TDG, they will find rules that work reasonably well to find the TDG representative.
When the TDG representatives start interacting with society, the neighborhood elections will be efficient, conclusive, and credible. But to get there, it probably needs three to four years of practice and refinement--to make sure the will of the 200-resident neighborhood is carried through.
As for the elections of the higher tiers, there will be fewer voters. These elections will be simpler to conduct than the neighborhood elections.
I hope this helps.
