Ideas by Alex Ahn

Imagine you are trying to build a city. You need to build the system that allows the city to evolve, whether that is by a planning committee or a guild of engineers. Whichever approach you take to create a system that scales, you will need intelligent people. Intelligence is one of the bottlenecks in starting a new city. You want intelligent people to manage your water and sewage systems. You want intelligent people to measure and combat pollution. You want intelligent people to maintain a political or legal system that is fair. You want intelligent people to maintain a system that can protect itself. This is why people want to move to good neighborhoods. Good neighborhoods are a heuristic that the governing system is competently working in most of these domains. Everything feeds on itself. A low pollution level in water leads to better health outcomes, which can potentially lead to more intelligent citizens (even from the moment they are born). A fair justice system leads to well-beha...