Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
IMO UN resolution votes should be secret ballot. Each country can choose (and replace) their own representative, but once the choice is made, what the representative does is up to their own conscience. Less "pressuring" by great powers, more seeing how people really think.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
More generally, perhaps a core theme of the next wave of democracy will be less "transparency and accountability" and more deliberate indirection and room for (pluralistic, aggregated) individual conscience. (this applies to DAOs too; eg. see NounsDAO https://aztec.network/blog/nounsdao-private-voting-final-update)
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@baseddesigner.eth
That could help in a perfect world but I bet those representatives arent thinking for themselves, are selected precisely to vote on what the state would, otherwise they wouldn’t be there And selection of another person by the public will never be accepted by UN I’m pretty sure Implies separate informed fair elections in every country and honest candidates
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Karthik
@0xkarthik
And how do we check the credibility of these selected representatives and how we make sure they are not sold themselves?
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@baseddesigner.eth
Check by their actions Interestingly, if those folks are elected and remain anonymous, then there's no way for anyone to find out who they are, bribe or influence in any way
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Karthik
@0xkarthik
As UN resolutions are non-binding and they are to prove a point, so maybe or may not,so countries must show their diplomacy to navigate voting.
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