05.29.06

(VETO) VOTE

Posted in problem solving at 12:49 am by nonattender

What would happen if legislation was passed electronically by means of an up/down proxy vote on a line item basis?   This would work similarly to (and well with) presidential line-item veto power… except applied to items of a certain size (much smaller than current “bills” and eligible for vote by all members rather than just committees) within legislative bodies themselves…

My initial thought was the above providing overview/granularity in the who’s who debate of 2-party politics - giving us a much clearer picture of where the two agree and disagree… data derived from this experiment would be very interesting.

So you (say) you want a revolution…  well, you know…

– update, moments later:

The funny version: where instead of elected representatives voting as ideological agents of their constituencies (as above), it is simply a cash based proxy bidding system… how different is this from what occurs now?  it’s not, so if there’s no moral judgment to be made, it’s at least a lot more efficient to go ahead and just make it into what it wants to be:  ebay.gov!

05.11.06

you are better than you

Posted in aphorisms, physics notes, problem solving, psychology at 2:27 pm by nonattender

is there any psychological testing / passive technical analysis done on college applicants in order to determine their level of DESIRE?  i don’t mean sex.  i mean a measure of how strongly they desire to attend.  why isn’t this considered a meaningful score?  It seems at least as indicative of performance as “intelligence” testing.

i guess you’d then have to contrast that data with whatever the generally held public conception of your company - i mean school - happened to be…  and then try to posit the conception that the applicants might have - so meaningful (true over time) conclusions could be reached about applicants / applicant’s motives - as well as your own.