Call to Action, Solutions

Hi! Happy Thursday!

Call to action! It is time to move beyond our collective lamenting the demise of democracy in this country and to promote solutions!

Call to action!

Below is a summary list of solutions we can do now to re-ignite a government of the people:

  1. Vote bank! No more election day! Bank votes! Increase voter participation using electronic ATMs of votes. 
  2. News Yelp! A news source review web site.  News sources and articles are peer-reviewed for journalistic objectivity standards. 
  3. Air! The augmented intelligence romantic software program! Air combines the best in artificial intelligence with a kick; the romance of a culture desired. Air represents our better angels interface on top of a world-wide public domain database. 
  4. Terran Sea Otter Academy [TSOA]! An Earth academy to collect all public domain data , especially in regards to human behavior. Manuals of child behavior! Now you will get a manual with your baby! No matter what your baby's age! TSOA also manages the implementation of Air, which presents the public domain data. 
  5. Data Center on the Moon [DCOM]! A public domain data center made available to everyone on the planet earth and hosting the data managed by the TSOA!
  6. Simulations! All advanced technical endeavors rely on simulation. We should do the same with politics. This simulation concept for people has a name: role playing. We should begin worldwide efforts to increase empathy and political process efficacy by role playing.
  7. Movies! We all make movies! Why? To define and describe the kind of world we want. How do our politicians know what kind of society we want if we do not tell them! We the people make movies en mass and then converge on a consensus of a society we want! Health care for all? Profit is the end game? What do we truly want on the aggregate? 
  8. Culture fun! Politics sucks. the. life. out. of. you. So, we need to make political systems cultural! Song, music, art and dance! Wrap our ideals and methods in new traditions and cultural trappings! Personally I'm thinking about starting a band, Distraction Destruction!
  9. Feedback Experiments! Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Social experiments cannot isolate the myriad of human variables. We must rely on experience feedback. Start with simulation, then groups of ten, groups of one-hundred and so on. Feedback of all the experiment data goes into the public domain curated by the TSOA! 
  10. Scale! We need to break scale together. If we in the US had one representative for every ten-thousand people then we would 30,000 representatives. Impossible you say! Impossible I say that today one representative represents ten-million people. We have no democracy. The fact is we are scale. It is time to admit it and quit pretending 535 people can manage 300,000,000. We have the technology to elect 30,000 reps. Let's do it! But wait! Only after have we run simulations and full experiments first! The claim that 30,000 reps work is made without evidence! Let us start a computer simulation (game) with millions of users and thousands of reps! 
  11.  VERY! Virtual environment, reality you! Imagine a world-wide virtual environment anyone can join as themselves to meet anyone else on the planet earth! What opportunity!
  12. Public Vote! Mitigate human nature's corruption nature. We do this by casting public votes that can be bought with money combined with only voting for who you know.  The Republicans are right if we give every a million dollars then a million dollars soon means nothing. Reset currency with paid voting. Let the Koch Brothers just give us all the money directly! Give every one a million dollars for their votes! The catch is you can only vote for people you know. The six-degrees of separation implies everyone can vote for anyone using only a pyramid of six-levels deep. Bribes to the person at the top of a pyramid need to be trickled down or risk losing the pyramid altogether. Votes are money!
  13. Right to mint currency! Revolution by guns is out. No one can afford destruction of the technology infrastructure in place today. Revolution by currency is in. Thus every individual is given the right to create and trade in a currency of their choosing outside of government taxing. Governments are only allowed to tax and conduct business in the government managed currency.
  14. Fantastic! The invention that we all must, must, must start every paragraph with a Whovian, "Fantastic!" Fantastic! 
These are just some of the solutions invented to address democracy's demise due to world scale. Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence! All the inventions above need to be vetted via feedback experiments and scaled properly.  Can we join together and embrace a hug of solutions?!?

Well come! and Well met!



Comments

Post a Comment

Explore

You Need To Start Making Political Decisions

Image
Hi! Happy Wednesday! Yesterday Jimmy Carter was interviewed where in essence he was saying the US is no longer a Democracy, but an oligarchy. But that is actually being nice. It is corruption plain and simple. The US has become like Mexico, China and most other countries around the world. Corruption rules. I posted Carter's interview on Facebook yesterday and made two important arguments yesterday regarding Carter's observation: Root cause was scale. Our success has become our failure. Our success has been since WWI the US has become the richest country in the world, by orders of magnitude. In Silicon Valley we say that your success becomes your failure when something "goes viral", or the scale of growth quickly overwhelms either the company or the technology. Internet start ups fail because ten, twenty or even one-thousand times more web visits can bring down a site. Going viral means scale grows orders of magnitude too quickly to manage. This is ca
Read more

Love, Hard Work Book Draft: Introduction

Image
Love, Hard Work By Mybrid Wonderful A New Government (For Making New Governments) Irreni World Scale "Irreni World Scale means hard work. Hard work in the past meant physical labor, back breaking labor of long hours. Hard work today means brain labor of social skills, getting along with people productively." -Mybrid Wonderful, "Love, Hard Work - Introduction" "Don't Panic! Two-hundred-million world governments as proposed by Irreni and opposed to today's two-hundred world governments is not meant to happen over night, but rather over two-hundred years." -Mybrid Wonderful, "Love, Hard Work - Introduction" Welcome to Love, Hard Work! Introduction    Before we get started, duty demands I lay down a couple of things first. Irreni World Scale means hard work. Hard work in the past meant physical labor, back breaking labor of long hours. Hard work today means brain labor of social skills, getting along with people produ
Read more

Irreni Manages Bad Reasoning

Image
Bad Reasoning Bad reasoning. We all have it and do it. Some of us more than others. How many times have we heard the average person doesn't understand finances? And yet everyone is expected to have their retirement invested? What kind of mad world is this? We demand financial savvy where none exists? It is almost as if the system is rigged to rip us all off while telling us it is our fault and we buy it hook, line, and sinker? The sad fact is we do let them get away with it because we do think it is our fault. Irreni World Scale manages bad reasoning. Some people may naively think that ignorance of something like finances is the only cause. Not at all. I know people with degrees in Math who buy lottery tickets. When I ask them if they know they are just throwing away money they say yes. On a more personal level I know I should be exercising but I don't. I guess in some ways one could consider this bad decision making over bad reasoning because I know the right answe
Read more

The Amercian Anthem: Drawing Cartoons of Muhammed

Image
Hi! Happy Thursday! Irreni World Scale is about solutions, not political punditry. This solution presented is how to think about the current national turmoil about NFL players taking the knee during the playing of the national anthem. No one can disrespect anyone unless someone lets them. That's worth repeating: No one can disrespect anyone unless someone lets them. What is the correct morality with respect to this national outrage? What is good? The Good: No one can disrespect anyone unless someone lets them. The Evil: Anything else. When I was but a wee young lad I read a couple of books that brought this point home to me. One is a book by Piers Anthony, "Xanth",  Worthless people's opinions are worthless. -Piers Anthony, "Xanth" Another book with a positive spin on the same message is, "Dorsai!", by Gordon Dickinson. I respect those people's opinion whose opinion I respect. -Gordon Dickinson, "Dorsai!
Read more

No Secret Ballots, Public Voting

Image
Hi! Happy Saturday! Mmmm, the last Irreni blog post was about empowering the voting franchise by six-degrees of voting. Conversations equal consensus. Today I'm going to further expand that power of your vote with public voting. Information is power. Secret information is not power. Therefore, here now and forever more let all our votes cast be a matter of public record. The Vote Bank enables public voting. The Vote Bank will just be another app on your smart phone, your tablet or laptop. The Irreni World Scale solution for hosting the vote bank application is the Device of Life (DOL). The DOL is part smart-phone, part tablet. The DOL also has a protocol to access the Data Center on the Moon (DCOTM). When I talk to folks about abolishing private ballots the first objection is always on the order of persecution, "my boss might fire me." Bullies will be bullies, tyrants will be tyrants. If your boss or family member is going to persecute you because of your vot
Read more

How To Scale, 101

Image
Hi! Happy Wednesday! Yesterday I blogged about applying Silicon Valley know-how to politics,  how under the covers of Irreni World Scale lie the principles Silicon Valley computing. Specifically I went on about the process of innovation being agile. Agile is defined to be a constant back-and-forth of top-down versus bottom-up design approaches called iterations. We can think of these top-down versus bottom up iterations as a revolution, a revolution of a wheel of design  where top and bottom of the wheel represent top-down vs. bottom-up design perspectives respectively. The new form of 21st Century revolution then is innovation brought on by each revolution of the design. I then made the statement that if there were only one thing to learn from Irreni World Scale it is this: that politics today needs new bottom-up systems for people to make decisions for themselves. Today, I'm going to change the one thing to learn from Irreni because there is an even more important fundament
Read more

Love, Hard Work Book Draft: Chapter 1

Image
Love Hard Work By Mybrid Wonderful A New Government (For Making New Governments) Irreni World Scale Welcome to Love, Hard Work! Introduction    Before we get started, duty demands I lay down a couple of things first. Irreni World Scale means hard work. Hard work in the past meant physical labor, back breaking labor of long hours. Hard work today means brain labor of social skills, getting along with people productively. Don't Panic! Two-hundred-million world governments proposed by Irreni as opposed to today's two-hundred world governments is not meant to happen over night, but rather over two-hundred years. Introduction: December 4, 2018 You ever wake up, roll over, look at the blue-glowing clock to ask yourself if it is time to start thinking? And in part do so by asking  yourself, "Do I rule the Universe today?" Over the many mornings of my fifty-six years I have devised many different methods for answering that question: do I
Read more

Kavanaugh Debrief

Image
Kavanaugh Debrief Hi! Happy Tuesday! Who should you believe: Kavanaugh or Ford?  I don't know. One of my throw-away lines with respect to atheism is that religion is for people who cannot accept "I don't know" as an answer. I could brag that a religious inability to accept "I don't know" is due to a lack of humility. But that's not the case. The reason people cannot accept "I don't know" is that "I don't know" is unsatisfying, it doesn't satisfy to provide ground for traction to move forward in life. But that's not true. I don't know is an actionable and tractable answer, and so I give to you this debrief. For example, in science a hypothesis starts with "I don't know" as the only actionable answer to the initial hypothesis. The answer is only known after an experiment is run and results analyzed. So how is "I don't know" actionable with respect to Kavanaugh vs. Fo
Read more

Introduction to the book "Irreni World Scale"

Image
What is Irreni? Introduction to the book "Irreni World Scale" Irreni World Scale is a political, scientific laboratory for proving claims of politics. What is Irreni World Scale? Irreni World Scale is new kind of governing. Irreni World Scale has nothing in common with today's central governments of Democracy, Communism, Socialism, etc. As such Irreni World Scale is going to be strange to you. It is going to be weird. However, don't let that stop you from reading this book. Just take a few deep breathes when needed. Perhaps set the book down when things get too weird. Take as much time as you need to digest things, perhaps even taking days in between reading chapters. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly. Obtaining the understanding in this book will not be cheap because the worth is a heavy esteem. Irreni World Scale is not a central government. Irreni World Scale is not a "rule of law" system. Irreni World Scale is a distributed system that uses
Read more

Drain the Swamp

Image
Hi! Happy Friday! "The government which governs best governs least because the people govern themselves." -Thomas Jefferson Modern perception of politics is that we either have a government or we have anarchy and so of course we choose government. Jefferson pointed out a third option: we the people govern ourselves. Irreni World Scale promotes this Jeffersonian model of people governing themselves. When I started this blog I wanted to apply modern software engineering principles to politics. Google and Facebook as companies both have over 1 billion users. Trust me, they do not organize their computers into governments. Yesterday I talked about an implicit BIG fancy pants idea not enumerated in the 20 BIG Fancy Pants ideas this blog is founded on. Draining the swamp is another implicit BIG Fancy Pants idea and refers to shifting power from government to small groups of people gradually. Groups of self-governing people come online being responsible for power currently
Read more