Thoughts at Random

The main idea: Fred Gohlke’s idea of iteratively setting up groups of 3 people who vote on each-other’s progression to ever-higher tiers presents the only credible alternative to liberal democracy. 0. Posts on this blog are ranked in decreasing order of likeability to myself. This entry was originally posted on 22.11.2021, and the current version may have been updated several times from its original form. 0.1 The Tryptic Model of elections featured in part 2 of this post is not mine at all, but was devised by Fred Gohlke as practical democracy , to which system I'm making relatively minor changes mechanics-wise and explaining in my own words below. Still, though the system is almost unchanged, the context to which I apply Gohlke's idea couldn't be more different, the original tweak to empower real democracy here made into a full alternative to liberal democracy. Thus, all resulting errors, departures from the original design or broader implications readers may choose to dr...

The main idea: proposing a duel of Russian Roulette as an improvement over the historical version that presents more balanced trade-offs to the participants.   0. Posts on this blog are ranked in decreasing order of likeability to myself. This entry was originally posted on 20.09.2022, and the current version may have been updated several times from its original form.   1.1 I am among those who look forward to the day in which the practice of the honorable duel will return, but the next time around we’d better have a new and improved version that suffers from fewer of the issues of the original. 1.2 It was easy to attack the practice as a mindless squander of youthful talent, a mere codification of the practice of vendetta from a time when the state did not rule over the aristocracy. 1.3 To this I’ll add that the practice as carried out amounted to a license of those quick of hand to libel as much as they liked. They could win every duel, and had de facto freedom to ch...

The main idea: a corporatist system where only corporations of a certain minimal market cap would be allowed to operate any economic activity at all would be a great improvement over straight socialism. 0. Posts on this blog are ranked in decreasing order of likeability to myself. This entry was originally posted on 26.09.2022, and the current version may have been updated several times from its original form.   1 The system 1.1 The efficient implementation of a truly corporatist economic system requires publicly-listed firms acting as clearinghouses of their own shares, as discussed previously . 1.2 Now that one’s market cap is an actionable datum, you can put all the weight of the world on it. Only firms of at least X value are allowed to operate and serve the market. The X would be such as to allow the operation of no more than a couple dozen firms in the whole country. The end. 1.3 X would be enforced by establishing the appropriate lower limit to the price the firm ...

 The main idea: various amendments to the democratic procedure that may be of interest. 0. Posts on this blog are ranked in decreasing order of likeability to myself. This entry was originally posted on 11.12.2022, and the current version may have been updated several times from its original form. I will keep adding new relevant ideas to this post as I go. 0.1 Whilst I have little faith in a possibly less shonky version of democracy to be attempted once ours crashes, such faith is still non-zero, so see below some ideas related to better electorate selection algorithms and other design changes to be considered for such a system. Goes without saying, that any such system would uphold the sovereignty of the legislature, enough of this judicial review nonsense. All these I consider inferior in promise to Gohlke's  idea on this matter. 1.1 First, everyone votes, but voting rights are issued well in advance of an election (probably right after any election, valid for the next one...

The main idea: having sons to be subject to a transferable permit system.   0. Posts on this blog are ranked in decreasing order of likeability to myself. This entry was originally posted on 05.07.2023, and the current version may have been updated several times from its original form.  1 The Audience 1.1 There are those who lay the blame for much of what is wrong in this world at the feet of men. 1.2 There are those who find much fault with the excess of power women may wield over men nowadays. 1.3 There are those who worry seriously about overpopulation. 1.4 There are those who agonise over the dysgenic tendencies of the modern world. 1.5 There are those who think a population is only as large as the number of fertile-age women it has. 1.6 There are those who think every achievement worth mentioning can only be expected from men.  1.7 There are those who’d applaud every scheme by which those better off are made to pay those less fortunate. 1.8 There are those who ...