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== For our politics == | |||
Politics is a tight-laced corset, significantly influenced by a multitude of unwritten rules that have proven to be effective over the last hundred years. This code of conduct is largely dictated by a politician's incentive to get re-elected in the next election. We know it all too well: drab fashion, empty phrases, feeble smiles, and handshaking. In general, an aesthetic that mocks any healthy taste. But do not misunderstand us superficially. It is this aesthetic of drabness that can be found in all political decisions. That's just how it’s done. Otherwise, what would voters think and say? | |||
Our idea for politics now includes much more colorful ties and suits. Please forgive us for the humor, but we are just having a bit of fun. On to our real idea. | |||
Our idea is to put ideas at the center of politics! | |||
Every political idea has roots, can be evaluated according to different criteria, and we can make predictions according to different standards. This should be at the center of politics. In short: What are the best ideas? Politics is an organization based on cybernetic principles. The leaders of the most successful companies and nations step back from their organization, letting the best ideas win. | |||
The best idea is not the one that is loudly promoted. Hence, there is a need to establish a new format to present political ideas, one that is not based on short-term thinking, but instead presents the effects of political ideas in a holistic and long-term way. | |||
Our democracies have a recognized means of presenting ideas, which can be used immediately. Petitions. Many laws also firmly establish that petitions do not have to follow a fixed format and can be submitted by anyone. Furthermore, politicians are legally obligated to respond to these petitions, even if they come from individuals. Petitions can thus be translated into political ideas, and it is important to make better use of them. | |||
Another idea is to start parties. The barriers to do this are low, and founding a party gives you a number of privileges that make it more efficient to work in politics. | |||
We can do this! | |||
== For our philosophy == | |||
We have to cite the good old saying here again. It teaches us that philosophy is an art that doesn't feed us. From this, we can infer two things. First, bread is important to the people. This is, of course, a metaphor and in our society, it can be universally translated into money. | |||
Even representatives of philosophy have in recent years despairingly slapped their hands over their smoking heads and proclaimed the end of philosophy. | |||
Contemporary representatives of philosophy with their white bushy beards, like a Jürgen Habermas, who do not believe in the end of their discipline, write books that are out of touch with reality, thousands of pages long which no one reads, and they throw around *-isms, produce complex sentences and thus write in a way for self-protection that the average reader, even after the third attempt cannot grasp, as there is nothing to grasp except bad breath. | |||
In summary, this appraisal is also a justification. Philosophy is an essential driving force of our culture. The absence of appreciation and role models leads to a drying up of newcomers and thus to a drying up of philosophical ideas. | |||
We believe that the debacle in philosophy is partly responsible for the Great Stagnation that we have already described. | |||
Our idea for philosophy is now to go beyond philosophy. Philosophy is one of the most exciting adventures that one can undertake today, and that from the comfort of one's armchair. So why not revive philosophy and like the stand-up comedians, also celebrate it in public again? Philosophy needs a forum again, and every city needs a place where philosophers meet daily to discuss questions that move them. | |||
Philosophy can also be reimagined content-wise. We can try things out in an experimental philosophy. We can make philosophy great again in today's topics, think about cognitive science, which already connects psychology and artificial intelligence with philosophy. | |||
Philosophy. Art. Craftsmanship. Technology. Spirituality. It's about combining more and staying less in a silo. | |||
We can do this! | |||
== For our science == | |||
We want to pick up on the last sentence from the ideas for philosophy here. We want to combine more. | |||
As soon as science descends from its shaky ivory tower and finally admits its guilt of doing nothing more than describing models that all carry an expiration date with the note that it is already clear that each of these models is wrong; when this cow is finally slaughtered and the fertile ground is offered to courage again to observe and think controversially, then new things can also emerge in science. | |||
We can do this! | |||
== For our medicine == | |||
Our idea for medicine is: | |||
Observe more and prescribe less. | |||
When you tell a doctor your symptom, they mentally flip through a thick book, which is a complete list of medications and their associated symptoms, and then essentially says “400 mg daily of X”. | |||
Why not 280 mg and why not hourly and when will I no longer notice it? | |||
You can no longer ask all these questions because they are already making money with the next patient. | |||
We can do this! | |||
== For our trends == | |||
Trends, and especially so-called megatrends, are essentially labyrinths that everyone can see. Everyone knows that artificial intelligence is a trend. Unless they have been taking a nap under a heavy rock for the last 60 years. | |||
The question is not what the trends are, but the better question is, how, as a founder and an established entrepreneur within the trend – or to stay with the image, within the maze, can one discover a secret door or treasure chest. | |||
This is particularly successful when you also know the developments that led to the trend. So, in the case of artificial intelligence: What brought us to where we are today? What led to symbolic systems being inferior to neural networks? How far can neural networks be scaled? | |||
We enter the snow line here and that's a good thing. The art is not only to create innovations by finding a treasure chest in a maze that everyone knows, but the art is, and above all, what really advances our species, to create so-called key innovations. | |||
Key innovations are keys to pull many more innovations behind them. Think of the World Wide Web, which has enabled many innovations. | |||
Such key innovations are easy in theory and hard in practice. First, choose a problem, then look for two areas of knowledge that touch the problem and look for a connection that was not obvious until now. | |||
Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave nothing else advice. When he wrote software at the CERN research center in Switzerland in the late 1980s, which was supposed to help frequently changing researchers find their way around the heterogeneous software environment of this research center. The answer was a protocol that is not an implementation and was therefore flexible enough. He then took this and combined it with a trend carried to him by researchers from the USA: the internet. The result was the World Wide Web. It took a good half year to convince the first 8 users to use it. Today, more than half of all people - almost 6 billion - use this protocol. | |||
Our idea for trends is, therefore, to courageously and proudly raise our eyes. Because there is so much more. Every founder can achieve much more than just creating a copy or an incremental improvement on something existing. | |||
We can do that too! | |||
== For our planet == | == For our planet == | ||