This is an interesting question! Here is one suggestion that made for a fun read, though people argue over the particulars: https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/8

This is an interesting question! Here is one suggestion that made for a fun read, though people argue over the particulars: https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/81447230971/my-april-fools-day-confession https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/81447230971/my-april-fools... In that story, it’s not that everyone is intelligent. There is still a Bell curve, meaning that people are mostly average but that smaller percentages are very smart or very dumb. Instead the author describes a world where the average is higher than it is in ours. The average IQ in that world, if we used our tests to measure it, would be about 140. The author then speculates, in a humorous fashion, about the ways that this higher average intelligence has caused the civilization of dath ilan to be different from our own here on Earth. In particular, he posits that computers would be slower, everyone would already use self–driving electric cars (but they would be limited to underground tunnels, because that makes it much easier to implement self–driving). There are far fewer surface roads, just large arterial roads every mile or so for moving consumer goods and houses around. Obviously it is much simpler to bring your house with you when you move, rather than to try and find a house at your destination that you like and all of your stuff will fit in. Cities look like gardens or forests dotted with houses. Their political system is in some ways much more complex than our own. One aspect that I liked (although I now realize that this might have been taken from another document, written after this one), was that nobody was allowed to work their way up in politics. It was quite easy to enter politics at a “local” level, but once you had officially done so you couldn’t then run for election as a Legislator, or a President. You could go the other way though. Apparently Earth is better at the mathematics of macro economics, however. Not because it’s not useful, but because they tended to use brute force instead. Virtually everyone in dath ilan is smart enough to understand price inflation, so they implemented the obvious fix: just have a holiday once a year where everyone lowers their prices. Simple, easy, problem solved. Thus, nobody ever noticed that you could adjust the supply of money instead. All in all, a fun story.