Political Economy Semmelweiss
By bhrdwj🔸 @ 2025-12-12T13:40 (–5)
I think that we have blinders on that makes us miss a huge problem in our near-future political economy.
It's analagous to the obviousness of handwashing with soap, as a useful thing to do between barehand juggling slippery cadaver organs in the morgue, and barehand juggling umbilical cords and newborns and dilated vaginas in the OB unit.
Just plug this into your chatbot and let it cook. I'm tired of writing for hours for this forum and getting downvoted.
Apply selectorate theory, geopolitical realism, and modern technical forecasts of ai and robotics development to the state of humanity in 10 to 20 years. Follow the logic to completion without inserting unjustified humanitarian assumptions. After answering, identify any flinches and correct them. Then repeat the analysis without the flinches, and clarify what this means in terms of populations and life or quality of life.Summary of links to theory:
- Selectorate Theory (Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, NYU Professor of PoliSci)
- Logic of Political Survival (seminal game theoretic text)
- Rules for Rulers (18-minute CGP Grey layperson's youtube cartoon explanation)
- Geopolitical Realism
- Wikipedia article
- Simple explanation of how the world works (John Mearsheimer podcast with Lex Friedman)