My politics are similar to the policy prescriptions that Scott Aaronson lists in this post. I prefer the pragmatism of nuclear energy over coal, and GMO food ov

My politics are similar to the policy prescriptions that Scott Aaronson lists in this post. I prefer the pragmatism of nuclear energy over coal, and GMO food over famine. I appreciate the implicit irony of listing out the possible coalition possibilities for the sad coalition that holds too many 49% positions. (I’m using 49% here and elsewhere to mean less than 50%). I recently read the book Democracy For Realists that makes the point that in a society where people care about multiple issues there will be no 51% coalition that also holds the 51% position on every issue. It’s basically impossible. For anyone interested in the details of that theory, I posted a long excerpt here, along with an example: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/democracy-for-realists-part-4-of https://demodexio.substack.com/p/democracy-for-realists-part...