The CIA didn’t support the 1953 Iranian coup d’état. Instead, the Shah continued its process of political liberalization. By 2021, Iran has become a shining example of liberal Islam, with ripple effects on the surrounding region.
Much of education is rote memorization. The backbone of rote memorization should be spaced repetition software instead of paper assignments and paper-like assignments. In particular, spaced repetition software with judicious use of machine learning on the backend. Technically this breaks the rule of “Same level of technology as today” but I feel it should count on the grounds that I am personally inventing this technology using off-the-shelf infrastructure.
Wider (but not total) spread of religions promoting vegetarianism, kosher and halal.
Redesign US cities by reducing free parking, increasing bicycle lanes and eliminating zoning laws that separate work from home.
Everyone (worldwide) drives on the same side of the road.
Electrons are positively charged. Protons are negatively charged. Positrons are called negitrons.
Don’t kill all the passenger pigeons, dodo birds and Galápagos tortoises. Eliminate the social prestige of eating endangered species.
Establish an effective international governing body for maximizing the sustainable harvesting of oceanic fish.
Technically this breaks the rule of “Same level of technology as today” but I feel it should count on the grounds that I am personally inventing this technology using off-the-shelf infrastructure.
Yeah I think that “something that’s perfectly doable with today’s technology without requiring novel breakthroughs, nobody has just bothered putting that particular application together” is within the spirit of “same level of technology”.
The 1953 Iranian coup strengthened the Iranian monarchy and overthrew Mossadegh the Prime Minister. And Britain would have got Mossadegh out anyway—they were fighting on the ownership of oil installations. If a British-backed coup ended up failing, Iran would probably have been pushed into the arms of Soviet Union. (Just like Nasser in Egypt after the Suez crisis)
We could have ended up with an Arab conquest of Israel—if Iran allowed Soviet forces to move into Soviet-leaning Iraq and Syria in 1967.
In particular, spaced repetition software with judicious use of machine learning on the backend. Technically this breaks the rule of “Same level of technology as today
An allegedly effective manual spaced-repetition system: flashcards in a shoebox with dividers. You take cards from the divider at one end and redistribute them by how well you recall. I haven’t tried this, but maybe I will since notecards have some advantages over a computer at a desk or a phone.
(It turns out I was trying to remember the Leitner system, which is slightly different.)
The CIA didn’t support the 1953 Iranian coup d’état. Instead, the Shah continued its process of political liberalization. By 2021, Iran has become a shining example of liberal Islam, with ripple effects on the surrounding region.
Much of education is rote memorization. The backbone of rote memorization should be spaced repetition software instead of paper assignments and paper-like assignments. In particular, spaced repetition software with judicious use of machine learning on the backend. Technically this breaks the rule of “Same level of technology as today” but I feel it should count on the grounds that I am personally inventing this technology using off-the-shelf infrastructure.
Wider (but not total) spread of religions promoting vegetarianism, kosher and halal.
Redesign US cities by reducing free parking, increasing bicycle lanes and eliminating zoning laws that separate work from home.
Everyone (worldwide) drives on the same side of the road.
Electrons are positively charged. Protons are negatively charged. Positrons are called negitrons.
Don’t kill all the passenger pigeons, dodo birds and Galápagos tortoises. Eliminate the social prestige of eating endangered species.
Establish an effective international governing body for maximizing the sustainable harvesting of oceanic fish.
Yeah I think that “something that’s perfectly doable with today’s technology without requiring novel breakthroughs, nobody has just bothered putting that particular application together” is within the spirit of “same level of technology”.
The 1953 Iranian coup strengthened the Iranian monarchy and overthrew Mossadegh the Prime Minister. And Britain would have got Mossadegh out anyway—they were fighting on the ownership of oil installations. If a British-backed coup ended up failing, Iran would probably have been pushed into the arms of Soviet Union. (Just like Nasser in Egypt after the Suez crisis) We could have ended up with an Arab conquest of Israel—if Iran allowed Soviet forces to move into Soviet-leaning Iraq and Syria in 1967.
I’m pretty sure this definitely exists today in apps like Duolingo and Khan Academy, at the very least the originator of spaced repetition wrote an article about it in 1998: https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/english/ol/nn_train
An allegedly effective manual spaced-repetition system: flashcards in a shoebox with dividers. You take cards from the divider at one end and redistribute them by how well you recall. I haven’t tried this, but maybe I will since notecards have some advantages over a computer at a desk or a phone.
(It turns out I was trying to remember the Leitner system, which is slightly different.)