Ideals based on evidence and reason
I collect my thoughts on various issues here as I come across information, admittedly often in the form of edutainment videos. The issues are not comprehensive individually or collectively — some are just an embedded video — but they are better than I could come up with off the top of my head if asked what we need to change. I hope to grow and refine these over time to better understand myself and how I develop.
Across the board, I would like to see computer programming concepts of test driven development applied to policy development. The world will keep changing faster, and laws will become outdated and even contradict their purposes faster. Laws should monitor progress and adjust automatically, similar to smart contracts, and heavily depend on measurement so decisions can be made based on evidence.
Filters
Issues
- Build trust in police Urgent
- Grant true universal suffrage Urgent
- Fix territory quirks that deny justice Urgent
- Get money out of politics Urgent
- Avoid entangling alliances High Priority
- Revolutionize education High Priority
- Kill civil asset forfeiture High Priority
- Protect net neutrality High Priority
- Legalize and regulate drugs High Priority
- End mass incarceration High Priority
- Integrate ex offenders High Priority
- Free HIV treatment and prevention High Priority
- Kill the death penalty High Priority
- End all discrimination High Priority
- Stop spying on Americans High Priority
- Kill the debt ceiling High Priority
- Require clinical trial registration and reporting High Priority
- Increase charter school regulation High Priority
- Only grant contracts that save money High Priority
- Prioritize gun violence over terrorism High Priority
- Ditch plurality voting system High Priority
- Kill private health insurance Medium Priority
- Allow fair partial veto Medium Priority
- Punish white collar crime Medium Priority
- Kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Medium Priority
- Expand high speed rail Medium Priority
- Expand high speed Internet access Medium Priority
- Free needles without fear of arrest Medium Priority
- Kill the electoral college Low Priority
- Kill Daylight Saving Time Low Priority
- Kill pennies and nickels Low Priority
- Include taxes in displayed prices Low Priority
- Fix retirement plans and fund social security Low Priority
- Switch to the metric system Low Priority
- Ditch pi in favor of tau Low Priority
