Policy Ideas
A collection of policy ideas for the 21st century.
| Area | Policy suggestion | Policy details | Empirical support | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goals | ||||
| Have at least a semplance of a believable plan for long-term sustainability of human life on planet earth. | - this table of policy ideas. | |||
| Computer-model assisted policy platforms. | - individual personalities must give away to model-based policy proposals. | |||
| Reach out to the stars for all people to enjoy. | - we're going to need to go to space due to over-crowding. | |||
| No more human working and suffering for all as fast as possible. | ||||
| Advertising restrictions. | ||||
| Methods | ||||
| Policy simulation through open-source "Sim City"-like models. | - \textcite{other:ReadingTheNewsEpisode6}" on those economic simulations. | - \url{https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/the-ai-economist/} | - \url{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCMTTB3MKuw} | |
| - \textcite{other:RidealongsEarle2029} on fractal neural networks for open-source "Metropolis". | - \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03896} | - \url{https://savingforecast.com} | ||
| Student competitions in solving provincial-level problems. | - this should be a practical part of any school curriculum. | - connected with \textcite{area:Education}. | ||
| Mobilising a modern "Civilian Conservation Corps". | - constructing human resettlement zones with robust long-term accounting for climate change. | - success of depression era New Deal CCC. | - url{https://vimeo.com/150192017} | |
| - planting forests. | ||||
| Financing | ||||
| Nuisance taxes to fund basic income. | - want to turn my life into a 5 year long construction zone? Pay me, idiot. | - "positive tariffs" in "The Green Economy" by \cite{Jacobs1993}. | - \url{https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9Uewtj3bwlGhG7rFy0D4fM8x7gpnFhf} | |
| - evidence of what goes on: \textcite{other:PlaylistIrritiatingNoises}. | ||||
| Medicine | ||||
| Increased accessibility to medical schools. | - how did Cuba produce so many doctors? | - Cuba's results. | - connected with \textcite{area:Education}. | |
| Increased use of virtual reality based telemetry like remote surgeons. | - use even shitty machine learning systems and basic robotic arms to operate a scalpel and tweezers remotely. | - popularity of VR anatomy tours. | - \url{https://developer.vuforia.com/} | |
| - use virtual reality to visualize wtf is actually happening in a surgery, similar to the way that Vuforia company is developing. | - literal research papers on the topic. | |||
| Education | ||||
| \textcite{game:Campaign}: for educating the public about our complex political system. | - detailed game theoretic models of realistic political influences dressed up as fun. | - the RAND corporation and war gaming. | - \url{https://github.com/jordanbCS/Campaign}. | |
| - specific international multilateral relations in general. | ||||
| "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" by \cite{BuckminsterFuller} or something like it. | - getting on the same page with something like this being synonymous with "continued existence of human life". | |||
| "Foundation for Learning Equality" | - Khan Academy curriculum daisy chained with Raspberry Pi type computers for internet access and experimentally optimized: \url{https://learningequality.org/} | - popularity in developing countries and the prison system etc… | ||
| Economics | ||||
| Bancor for liquidity swaps. | - seems like the best candidate for mitigating transnational trade imbalances in the service of global economic stability. | - \url{https://bancor.network} | ||
| End-to-end blockchain accounting of consumer supply-chain. | - \url{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XdVjBOb04Y} | |||
| Politics | ||||
| Voting with crypto currency. | - probably with EOS as most tested delegated-proof-of-stake blockchain. | - sustained extistence for about five years now. | - \url{https://eos.io/} | |
| - \url{https://votecoin.com} | ||||
| Labour | ||||
| Basic necessities of survival are provided. End of story. | ||||
| Transportation | ||||
| Golf carts to phase out fossil fuel using vehicles as fast as possible. | - example proposal for Vancouver, BC: \url{https://wootcrisp.com/policy/2022/03/03/the-golf-cart-and-industrial-conveyor-belt-solution-to-vancouvers-traffic-congestion/} | - Isla Holbox, Mexico. | - \url{https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vny5/glorified-electric-golf-carts-for-all} | |
| Bike and pedestrian hill conveyor belts. | - \url{reddit.com/r/carfree} | - url{https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/isla-holbox-a-mexican-island-that-retains-its-distinct-small-town-vibe/2019/02/21/341bf150-3170-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html} | ||
| Covered sidewalks and bike lanes for year-round use. | - Trundheim, Norway. | - \url{https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/qmt13o/in_south_korea_the_solar_panels_in_the_middle_of/} | ||
| Pay people to cycle and work from home. | - url{https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/opinion/opinion-limit-post-covid-19-traffic-paying-people-to-cycle-instead-drive-2338791} | |||
| Rights | ||||
| The right to shelter. | - probably semi-addressable by seizing assets of corruption. | |||
| The right to internet acces. | - something like the half the world does not have reliable access to the internet. | |||
| Low-cost VR for all peoples. | - refer to Education."Foundation for Learning Equality" as a project template. | |||
| Income proportional duties. | - Finland's graded speeding ticket system for example. | |||
| Reproductive licenses set as one child + a lotto ticket for another. | ||||
| Law and order | ||||
| Drone based by-law enforcement | - like Robocop but coming for your chimneys and noise-making bullshit. | |||
| Infrastructure | ||||
| Roofs are to be painted white to reflect heat as much as possible. | - \url{https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/ultra-white-paint-may-someday-replace-air-conditioning-180977560/} | |||
| Hemp crop investment. | ||||
| Food | ||||
| Vertical farming. | ||||
| Lab-grown meat. | ||||
| Seaweed farming. | - \url{https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00100/full} | |||
| Environment | ||||
| Photograph and catalog every at-risk old-growth tree. | ||||
| Remote controlled robot surrogates to sift the world's garbage dumps. |