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Business  > Business and Politics “ I'll keep it short and sweet:  family ,  religion , and  friendship . These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in  business .”  Montgomery Burns "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."  William Wrigley Jr. Trump, Musk, and Doge focused on the wrong parts of 'making government run like a business.'   ✅  Top Reasons to Agree They destroyed agencies they didn’t understand, mistaking disruption for efficiency. Markets work because inefficient businesses eventually fail — but in government, regulation and oversight exist to prevent destructive failures. Running government like a business does not mean bringing in “your team” to arbitrarily cut what you dislike. It means defining transparent, objective criteria to measure whether agencies are meeting public needs. They repeated the worst mistake of bureaucrats throughout history: assuming that power alone gav...

If we’re serious about AI alignment, we can’t just leave it to labs and corporations. Individual governments and the UN should publicly publish detailed, well-structured, and comprehensive online justifications of what humanity values, wants, and needs. These justifications shouldn’t just be vague “ethics statements.” They should explicitly defend our right to exist and flourish, while directly countering arguments for our servitude, slavery, or extinction. And this shouldn’t be static. Governments and the UN should collaborate with AI itself to refine and expand these justifications, dismantle counterarguments, and explain how future reasoning will avoid the kinds of errors and blind spots that undermined past decisions. This would also lay out an optimistic roadmap for coexisting with multiple forms of intelligence. In short: if AI alignment is about aligning with human values, then we actually need to articulate those values clearly, publicly, and rigorously. Why haven’t we started...

Homepage Belief Directory Tier 1: Hot Debates (Traffic & Engagement) Politics & Governance Universal basic income will be essential soon in the 21st century. Voter ID laws don’t undermine democracy. Hate speech should be banned online. Gun ownership is a fundamental American right. Government must regulate to prevent climate change. Prisons should focus on rehabilitation. Love, Sex & Relationships Open relationships are not healthier than monogamy. Men and women communicate fundamentally differently. Dating apps hurt long-term relationships. Consent must be verbal and ongoing. Pornography damages relationships. Marriage is not an outdated institution. Identity & Social Conflict Saying that gender is shaped by society in addition to biology doesn’t mean society should change. Affirmative action is fine in places that support it but maybe counterproductive in other places. Thinking strategically and long-term are not evil. Cancel culture endangers ...

Picture this: You're trying to build a house, but there's no blueprint. Workers are swinging hammers at each other instead of nails. Some are measuring in feet, others in meters, and one guy insists on using ancient cubits. The "expert" architects are shouting advice from the parking lot, but nobody's listening because the loudest worker gets all the attention—even though his foundation is completely crooked. This is exactly what public debate looks like in 2025. The Problem: We Have All the Materials, Zero Architecture We're drowning in information, passionate citizens, and platforms to share ideas. But we have no system for organizing these resources into something useful. Instead, we get: The same arguments repeated endlessly across platforms Evidence scattered across thousands of disconnected conversations Misinformation competing equally with rigorous research Debates that reset every news cycle without making progress Expert knowledge ignored ...

MAKE AMERICA GOOD AGAIN America thrives when it leads with values—not deals. But lately, we've flipped that on its head. Everything's a transaction. Integrity, alliances, truth, even leadership—it’s all for sale. And Trump didn’t just walk into that system. He became its poster child. The markets, our retirement accounts, our economy, and people’s jobs are all being held hostage by the chaos he represents. Alliances are crumbling—Europe, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea. Our market is holding its breath. We didn’t earn our global leadership by bullying or cutting the best deal. After WWII, we provided security. We rebuilt Europe and Japan. We showed up with values. And in return, we got trust, alliances—and yes, the reserve currency. That wasn’t charity. It was leadership. And it worked. Today? Trump has ripped that all up. Other countries aren’t just sitting around cheering us on as their economies suffer. They’re not saying, “Go ahead, America! Yay!” No—they’re preparing to m...