You lost me at “Bywayeans generally save up enough to move out of their parents’ houses around age 9”. Likely you will lose most people at “ancap”.
But these are only minor things, and I can imagine that it would be possible to pull up some plausible explanation or just to revise one or the other, and keep the core message. I think the main issue with your description Byway are in these:
″...even though Bywayeans are smarter than Earthlings...”
“Bywayeans have a lot of energy...”
″...they love working and innovating...”
These imply that they are already better then us, and would run the world better even in the structure we have on our real Earth.
The message of Dath Ilan is that they and us are the same people, with the same genetic heritage, hence intelligence and vices. But they can still do better, just by having better institutions/methods for cooperation, hence, we can get better too! If you give special power to the inhabitants of your alternate Earth, it may explain why are not stuck in the same mire as we are, and imply we cannot learn from their success.
Dath ilani are canonically 3 Earthling standard deviations smarter than Earthlings, partly because they have been deliberately optimizing their kids’ genomes for hundreds of years.
You lost me at “Bywayeans generally save up enough to move out of their parents’ houses around age 9”. Likely you will lose most people at “ancap”.
But these are only minor things, and I can imagine that it would be possible to pull up some plausible explanation or just to revise one or the other, and keep the core message. I think the main issue with your description Byway are in these:
″...even though Bywayeans are smarter than Earthlings...”
“Bywayeans have a lot of energy...”
″...they love working and innovating...”
These imply that they are already better then us, and would run the world better even in the structure we have on our real Earth.
The message of Dath Ilan is that they and us are the same people, with the same genetic heritage, hence intelligence and vices. But they can still do better, just by having better institutions/methods for cooperation, hence, we can get better too! If you give special power to the inhabitants of your alternate Earth, it may explain why are not stuck in the same mire as we are, and imply we cannot learn from their success.
Dath ilani are canonically 3 Earthling standard deviations smarter than Earthlings, partly because they have been deliberately optimizing their kids’ genomes for hundreds of years.