Neurocracy

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Maybe I've just read too much history, but the random topics of the day and trends that people care about one decade are almost universally irrelevant or forgotten in five decades. Some things were, in fact, important, but become background issues as people accept and adapt. Others are overblown, wrong, or artifacts on the political or cultural environment, i.e. proxies for anxieties that are generational or for the interests of a major institutional power with a short- or medium-term agenda.

That is to say, if I were to create a wiki for the mid twenty-first century, I'd make it alienating, not comfortably extrapolative. The concerns of the populace should be head-scratchers for us. People should be arguing about shades in social strata that don't exist now, waxing moral on norms we haven't invented, and making jokes we don't have the context to get. Sociopolitically, we should expect a layering of cultural and political movements. In fifty years, that might include some kind of Reaganesque conservative reassertion, some kind of orthogonal or approximately novel social movement, and some kind of progressive or liberal progressive advance, and each reacting to one another and sticking around to greater or lesser extents.

I think we will also be suprised to see what looks like zero or minimal progress in some areas that are currently hyped. I'll leave considering those as an exercise for the reader.

Basically, the future is messy and alienating. We'll be old then, if we're alive, and the concerns of that day will not be the concerns of ours, or even extrapolations on those concerns.

Which got me thinking, what if it was like a Nomic?

Imagine cloning an exact copy of Wikipedia on another server. Then have 2 player teams: bad guys and good guys. The bad guys edit/write articles to cover their tracks. The good guys scour articles and article histories trying to uncover the truth. Maybe there needs to be a "game master" team that does some type of moderation? I don't know, just spit balling here. Too crazy?

[Nomics]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/14/22577088/neurocracy-wikip...

Is there some secret to progressing through the plot or do you have to click through every link and read through every minutia and all the change history of each article?

Or is the "secret" to buy a pass? (I was hoping the free sample experience would have some sort of conclusion.)

Pandemic that prompts global neural monitoring: 1,620,450 infections (with a death toll of 39,705)

Pandemic that prompts… mild pressure to get vaccinated: 218,946,836 infections (with a death toll of 4,539,723)

To be fair, CMD sounds more unpleasant.