but this premise has an analogue - by out-breeding the "undesirables", you can obtain "democratic" power over another group. It is the argument that is used to take children away from parents of various indigenous races and "diluting" their race, or as an argument against immigrants ("they will out-breed us and then out vote us, if we let them in!").
I don't buy that a sybil attack is a real threat, as long as duplication procedure is also available to others, not just a select few. But if such a procedure is only available to a select few, it implies that they already have power, and so such a sybil attack doesn't seem like it's worth it, but instead would just use that power directly!
I don't buy that a sybil attack is a real threat, as long as duplication procedure is also available to others, not just a select few. But if such a procedure is only available to a select few, it implies that they already have power, and so such a sybil attack doesn't seem like it's worth it, but instead would just use that power directly!