(No, this isn’t a clickbait title. The unprecedented part is technically interesting and legit can’t be compressed into a headline.)
First, some background. If you’ve been following mainstream media coverage of /r/WallStreetBets and the wildly swinging Gamestop stock, you may not be aware that /r/WallStreetBets has a Plan at all beyond “Let’s all buy the stock to pump it up, making all of us rich.”
But /r/WallStreetBets has a Plan — a Plan which doesn’t rely on there being a greater fool to buy at a higher price. I was quite surprised, when I first looked into the affair yesterday…
Currently, most concrete policy proposals for police change are falling far short of what people seem to wish to see; conversely, some of the more popular slogans don’t seem well matched with concrete agendas. I decided to try my own hand at forming a reasonable policy agenda that would match the force of slogans such as “abolish the police”. My initial post got a surprising-to-me amount of enthusiasm, and a large amount of helpful discussion. This “Comprehensive Reboot of Law Enforcement” is the result, a revised and compiled 23-point agenda.
The intent of this agenda is to describe a comprehensive…
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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