Policy experiments I might care about if we weren’t all due to die in 7 years:
Prediction markets generally, but especially policy prediction markets at the corporate- and U.S. state- levels. The goal would be to try this route to raising the sanity waterline in the political domain (and elsewhere) by incentivizing everyone’s becoming more of a policy wonk and less of a tribalist.
Open borders experiments of various kinds in various U.S. states, precluding roads to citizenship or state benefits for migrant workers, and leaving open the possibility of mass deportation conditional on various outcomes (meaning the experiments are reversible).
Experiments in massive deregulation, especially in zoning.
The overarching theme is that it’s better to accrue generally useful instrumental resources (e.g., rationality and wealth) by experimentally trying out and incrementally scaling up policies than it is to do the usual political thing—decreeing an object-level policy intervention one political tribe is sponsoring against another tribe.
There’s also a bunch of stuff to look into in the area of making people actually directly smarter … but none of this especially matters given AGI.
Policy experiments I might care about if we weren’t all due to die in 7 years:
Prediction markets generally, but especially policy prediction markets at the corporate- and U.S. state- levels. The goal would be to try this route to raising the sanity waterline in the political domain (and elsewhere) by incentivizing everyone’s becoming more of a policy wonk and less of a tribalist.
Open borders experiments of various kinds in various U.S. states, precluding roads to citizenship or state benefits for migrant workers, and leaving open the possibility of mass deportation conditional on various outcomes (meaning the experiments are reversible).
Experiments in massive deregulation, especially in zoning.
The overarching theme is that it’s better to accrue generally useful instrumental resources (e.g., rationality and wealth) by experimentally trying out and incrementally scaling up policies than it is to do the usual political thing—decreeing an object-level policy intervention one political tribe is sponsoring against another tribe.
There’s also a bunch of stuff to look into in the area of making people actually directly smarter … but none of this especially matters given AGI.