• TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    They didn’t seem terribly useful, compared to other long projects.

    • Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
    • Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
    • Unite humanity with a living new language.
    • Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
    • Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
    • Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
    • Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
    • Balance personal rights with social duties.
    • Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
    • Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

    Basically, a freethinker version of the Ten Commandments tablets.

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      1 year ago

      The listed weights and dimensions are the most useful things to me. Knowing the approximate weight of a kilogram and length of a meter would be incredibly useful when trying to recreate things you find in records

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        If you read “Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity” as eugenics and genocide, I think you might be jumping the gun a bit based on personal biases. Population bottlenecks require you to be very careful about species-wide gene pools. In a population of 10,000, you don’t want Cletus reproducing with his first cousin.