Yea it’s kinda like what they tell you not to do when building a startup. Every founder wants to build a beautiful, hyperscaling tech-heavy product before they have even confirmed that they have a few single real customers. In this case we are gonna write out our entire plans for the future of the universe before we win a single congressional seat.
Anyway this community isn’t set up to end something like veganism I don’t think. That requires large scale evangelizing and coalition building (unless we can solve it with tech). This movement is investing mostly into research and policy, I.E. we are betting on lots of the most important issues of our time not being politically toxic/salient. I think there is a lot of truth to the notion that most federal policy is written by people in think tanks and OMB—and that as long as it doesn’t piss off the electorate then the policymaker rather than the elected politician effectively gets to write the law.
But for stuff that obviously is in the mainstream overton window, e.g. veganism that is going to require large behavioral changes from ordinary citizens , you need an actual coalition of hard power.
Yea it’s kinda like what they tell you not to do when building a startup. Every founder wants to build a beautiful, hyperscaling tech-heavy product before they have even confirmed that they have a few single real customers. In this case we are gonna write out our entire plans for the future of the universe before we win a single congressional seat.
Anyway this community isn’t set up to end something like veganism I don’t think. That requires large scale evangelizing and coalition building (unless we can solve it with tech). This movement is investing mostly into research and policy, I.E. we are betting on lots of the most important issues of our time not being politically toxic/salient. I think there is a lot of truth to the notion that most federal policy is written by people in think tanks and OMB—and that as long as it doesn’t piss off the electorate then the policymaker rather than the elected politician effectively gets to write the law.
But for stuff that obviously is in the mainstream overton window, e.g. veganism that is going to require large behavioral changes from ordinary citizens , you need an actual coalition of hard power.