America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 501 points –
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as someone with autism do NOT let us control everything. You'd get 27,000 cats and a ton of trains without any issues being solved.

I think a ton of trains would actually solve a lot of issues

cats too tbh

Ironically may result in the resurgence of the bee population due to cats murdering the bird population

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A government of autists would come up with optimized solutions to many problems. The issue is that most people are resistant to actually fixing things, so everyone would just get mad.

optimised solutions often create negative secondary effects in other systems - it’s not (always) that people are resistant to fixing things, it’s that when people get attached to an “optimised solution” and it comes into contact with the real world, it’s often difficult for them to take valid criticisms that aren’t about the system

It's almost always for a selfish reason though. For instance, health insurance in the U.S. could easily go away if the government combined all of the funding for public healthcare systems. It won't happen because of the for profit healthcare industry.

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