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All laws must have a stated intention, a review period, and a mechanism to report and review unintended consequences.
I suppose convincing people that evidence based policy is the correct course of action could be considered a resource.
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Thanks! Will read up about it. Edit: Reading up on Social Darwinism on Wikipedia, Britannica and History.com, I guess not. Social Darwinism seems either not well-defined and/or assumes that the fitness functions that natural evolution worked out need to be taken nearly as it is. I am not saying the latter. I am saying there needs to be more clearly defined fitness functions (call them performance criteria, KPIs, etc.…
Could you elaborate an example on a real life scenario and how this will look like?
First, a clarification over what I am not challenging with the status quo. In nature, some organisms are higher up in the food chain and freely kill others. We do NOT define 'fit' in the way where those who are better at killing other humans are favored for survival. We have already set this right by creating laws that punish homicide. This bends the optimum from favoring more physical strength to favoring people to make good overall social contributions, which can be intellectual as well.
The value society should provide to an individual should (generally) be based on the value they provide to the society. This is already majorly the case. However, I challenge inheritances where someone may just be born with a lot more than others without having made those contributions to the society. There are debates present online on this alone, and I cannot claim that the social choice should be exactly this way or that way.
In a democracy, people (except children, etc.) are given equal right to vote. I do not find this optimal. People who understand social dynamics, policies and promises of various parties well (which does not include me) should have more influence on which party should get selected. I do not know how this could be implemented. Perhaps a quiz along with the vote?
I know these are not good and realistic examples. I'll need to think more. However, I do often feel that people who do good and think for the society struggle more while those who put themselves higher at the cost of the society often end higher up.
Years ago I watched a video of a young woman foreign worker from I think Philippines kill herself because of abuse. It really haunted me. And more research showed it's pretty common, as well as unsafe labor to the point of death, mostly all in middle eastern countries. So, since then, my answer is modern day slavery. Wherever and however it exists. Don't need unlimited resources to start, just to make a living. Would…
In the meantime, you can free bonded labourers for a fairly modest sum. This is one I have personally donated to, but there are others: https://www.barnabasaid.org/gb/latest-needs/free-christian-f... If you wanted more hands-on, I'm guessing there is room for expansion in ending inter-generational debt bondage.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/pmjrdg/is_th...
* Social intelligence testing. I would create a testing scheme robust enough to serve as a form of employment credential. Typically people of extremely low social intelligence present catastrophic performance failures that directly impact career performance and working relationships at dire costs to their businesses and the people around them. * I would create software licensing. This would identify persons capable o…
If I had the Infinity Stones [1], I'll redefine human legal, political, cultural practices and beliefs so that we set right fitness function as it relates to 'survival of the fittest'. Nature evolved its own criteria for what is fit and unfit. We humans have twisted those around with our beliefs and systems, often for good, but often incorrectly and often inconsistently. 'Fit' cannot be meaningful unless 'unfit' too…
And what percentage of the world's population do you envisage would remain un-incinerated after you're done?
If I had the Infinity Stones [1], I'll redefine human legal, political, cultural practices and beliefs so that we set right fitness function as it relates to 'survival of the fittest'. Nature evolved its own criteria for what is fit and unfit. We humans have twisted those around with our beliefs and systems, often for good, but often incorrectly and often inconsistently. 'Fit' cannot be meaningful unless 'unfit' too…
..but aren't our beliefs part of nature too? Who gets to decide which definitions of fit and unfit are "natural" or not?
- Manufacturing mass timber [1] 5-over-1s and starting a limited-profit housing association [2] wave in the US. - Completely circular material lifespans. I'm out of my depth here, but there _must_ be a way to gasify/liquify any type of object and filter its contents through a membrane, the same way desalination plants separate salt (NaCL) and water (H20). - Replacing first-past-the-post voting with proportional repre…
What's the current regulatory status for mass timber? My understanding was that one of the main hurdles for uptake in the US has been regulation. Is that no longer the case?
- replace ownership of productive means from capitalistic to cooperative
- ban any ownership of goods that are not actively used (eg one home, one car for everyone)
- all high ranking politician positions are unpaid and voluntary
- some more details...
* Social intelligence testing. I would create a testing scheme robust enough to serve as a form of employment credential. Typically people of extremely low social intelligence present catastrophic performance failures that directly impact career performance and working relationships at dire costs to their businesses and the people around them. * I would create software licensing. This would identify persons capable o…
I take it from the down votes that people find the mere idea of identifying and measuring people pleasant to work with or competent to perform the work abhorrent.
Climate change. Why? Because it's already killing people every day. And is slowly but surely making our environment entirely unstable. But as a typical consumer we don't have much power to stop it. Do you need unlimited money? Not necessarily, but there are so many different possibilities when it comes to dealing with it. Carbon capture, green energy, (fusion?!), energy storage, planting more millions of trees, phasi…