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Fairness
TLDR: Fairness is about lopsidedness of expected rewards, rather than about unbiased rules or equality of opportunity.
Apr 7
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Reproduction Control
TLDR: To reduce r-promoting reproductive strategies from dominating the future, Utopia restricts the flow of democratic influence and social support in…
Apr 5
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June 2023
File Management
TLDR: Computer operating systems should adopt a smartphone-style approach to file management, with each application managing its own files in a sandbox…
Jun 3, 2023
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May 2023
Determinism
TLDR: Utopians are determinists who accept the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics.
May 25, 2023
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Immigration
TLDR: Immigration is hugely beneficial, both to the migrant and to the host country. Open borders could double the productive ability of the world, and…
May 16, 2023
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Keyboards
TLDR: Standard keyboards are unergonomic and slow. Utopia uses ergonomic keyboards that support chording/stenotype.
May 6, 2023
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April 2023
Laboratorists
TLDR: Science would be better served by cleanly separating those who do theory from those who do experiments.
Apr 27, 2023
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Public Goods Funding
TLDR: Because it’s easier to judge what’s good after the fact, most public goods in Utopia are funded via prizes.
Apr 18, 2023
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Icons
TLDR: Utopia uses a language for generating/naming icons/symbols. Most symbols, emoji, icons, flags, and logos are drawn from this language, sometimes…
Apr 9, 2023
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March 2023
Spacetime Distances
TLDR: Special relativity shows us how to think about spacetime and distances measured with imaginary numbers. Utopia uses units of length that are more…
Mar 31, 2023
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Basic Income (Part 3: Funding)
TLDR: True UBI should be an aspirational goal, for the modern world is presently too unequal.
Mar 21, 2023
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Basic Income (Part 2: Universal Cash)
TLDR: Welfare programs involving direct, unconditional cash transfers are more efficient than in-kind benefits, especially when paired with a system of…
Mar 20, 2023
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