RandomRanger
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upturn the rules based international order
Can we at least do away with this cliche? It's not a thing any more.
Nobody ever explained what the rules are, in this rules based order. New rules could be invented on the fly, like 'responsibility to protect', various police actions or authorized uses of force. Not authorized by the UNSC but by the US president... just like the rest of great power politics throughout human history, where rules were drawn up by the strong.
This is a game everyone can play and indeed everyone is playing it. Iran is making a new rules based order in the straits of Hormuz.
In Britain a similar story has been repeated, wherein government hesitation to pursue an outlawing of unconstitutional parties like Reform and Restore in spite of their unconstitutionality necessarily depriving them of the protections of assembly, since there is no democracy outside the nation state which is the guarantor of freedoms and rights for people, and necessarily that seeking it’s abolition are (morally but not necessarily legally) outside it’s protections.
Also, this sentence is far too long and ungrammatical, can you at least make it easier to read?
What about an inversion of the idea?
Men are physically stronger and better for tough industrial jobs like oil production or construction. Men also contribute more high variance geniuses, entrepreneurs, innovators (and criminals too but also a good number of police and protectors).
So maybe there should be more men than women? AI can handle the busy bee jobs.
Women would concentrate on their key comparative advantage, what they can do but men can't, having children. There'd be some kind of polygamous system where men who do better get to have more wives, while low performers don't get even a single wife. Women would have many husbands, 3 or 4 on average maybe? More?
I think this is a bad idea, since having many more men than women would probably cause instability. Presumably the men wouldn't be too happy about sharing wives with other men, even if each could be sure of paternity via modern testing tools. Women would be jealous, upset. The most capable men would probably try and hoard the women... Such massive biological engineering schemes seem sure to have unintended consequences. Social engineering can be quickly undone, whereas biological mistakes are sticky!
Related, Arctotherium on marriage patterns in existing human cultures: https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/human-reproduction-as-prisoners-dilemma
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