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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 Marriage is not an outdated institution.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...

In today’s digital age, public discourse resembles a chaotic marketplace—where voices shout over each other, valuable ideas vanish into the void, and every debate seems destined to begin anew. This isn’t just noisy—it’s paralyzing. Enter the Idea Stock Exchange (ISE) , a radical redesign of how we debate, deliberate, and collectively build knowledge. The Crisis of Modern Discourse 1. The Disorder Problem Our debates unfold like a broken game of telephone, fragmented across platforms and lacking any coherent structure. The result? Information overload : Valuable insights drown in noise. Zombie arguments : Weak claims outlive their refutations. Ephemeral insights : Critical counterpoints vanish before they’re heard. Viral over valid : Sensationalism trumps substance. Without structure, public discourse devolves into a Tower of Babel—lots of talk, little progress. 2. The Tabula Rasa Problem Imagine rebuilding the Pyramids from scratch every time someone mentions ancient engineering. That’...

  🧩 How the Idea Stock Exchange Fulfills This 1.  It Treats Beliefs as Public, Networked Objects Every idea you propose gets connected to other beliefs: pro, con, context, and consequence. You’re not forming ideas in a vacuum—you’re  inserting them into the fabric  of shared human knowledge. If your idea contradicts others, the platform helps identify that  contradiction immediately. Every belief is like a puzzle piece—you have to  make it fit  with the rest of the picture, or improve the picture to fit it better. 2.  It Tests Every Idea for Contradiction, Not Just Popularity Most platforms reward attention. The Idea Stock Exchange rewards  coherence . You earn a higher score if: Your belief has strong, well-supported reasons. It holds up  when challenged . It doesn’t contradict already well-supported knowledge. It’s not just: “Can you make a strong argument?” It’s: “Can you make a strong argument that still fits with everything else we...

We’re Running Out of Time to Fix How We Argue Steven Wright’s dark joke hits harder today than ever:  “A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.”  And right now, we’re all exhausted. Our beliefs aren’t built on facts—they’re cobbled together from TikTok clips, rage-bait headlines, and whatever our algorithms decide we’ll click. This isn’t just annoying. It’s dangerous. Democracies are buckling under the weight of arguments that go nowhere. We’re not just divided—we’re operating in different universes of “truth.” If we don’t fix how we disagree, we’ll keep sleepwalking into disasters: climate denial during heatwaves, vaccine hesitancy during pandemics, AI rules written by corporate lobbyists. Why This Is an Emergency We’re arguing wrong Social media turns debates into social wildfires. Outrage spreads faster than truth. We “win” by wearing others down, not by finding answers. We’re running on empty No one has time to fact-check everything. So we outsource ...