spiderwort @ spiderwort @lemm.ee

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I don't think I did. Good and relevant?

You remind me of a religious fundamentalist encountering his first plate of spaghetti.

My cynicism is so automatic that I could never say what you just said and keep a straight face.

To underline the joke : research does not imply publishing. Except among scientists it does. Did I get that right?

I researched the spelling of "research" for this reply. Does this count as publishing?

Assume that we've got self-evident goals. Health, happiness, security...

They're also spelled differently, aha!

Well somebody's got to.

Well first we would change beans into peas.

The rest is trivial.

That doesn't seem to make much of a difference, strangely enough.

I read a short story where they took a humane approach to population reduction.

An engineered disease. A short fever and then your uterus stops working. 95% effective.

Rioting. All scientists hung. But the world was better.

Or, maybe we already do 100% science. It's just that the agenda isn't precisely popular. And the voting is just for show.

99% of the voters wouldn't know science if it bit them on the butt

Well that's the question.

Voting means lots of dummies, a sea of propaganda... Bad stuff there too.

We have good models that offer up good decisions, so why put it to the vote?

Base our policy on tested models. Audit our reasoning thoroughly. Be rational.

Vs consult the masses, 99% of whom don't even understand the question.

Seems like a no brainer

Ooh look the monkeys like that one. Funny bees!

Think of them as 2 methods for determining policy. Sorry for the confusion.

Two methods for determining policy.

We vote.

We do science.

Should we switch to the latter?

I was thinking straight up science.

Given these observations, and this bit of sound reasoning, we concluse that these policies should be implemented.

No voting required.

The you are agreement with others here. It depends on the threat level.

Would you like to take "the right to vote" away from those who's opinions you do not respect?