Opinion of Rationalia

[James Monroe]

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[mvd10]

I'm all for looking at the data before making a decision but this sounds like the back cover of Brave New World 2018 edition.

[IceAgeComing]

sounds like a government that it would be easy to turn into an effective dictatorship honestly and rather terrifying because of it.

"rational" is a subjective term anyway

[SWE]

Honestly a pretty terrifying idea. Every aspect of it is terrible.

[RFayette]

Suffers from the basic problem that data is only useful in that it can make a case for certain policies on the premise that certain values - such as compassion - are important.  But without a set of values one has before looking at the data, then the premise of Rationalia is ridiculous.

[Karpatsky]

Suffers from the basic problem that data is only useful in that it can make a case for certain policies on the premise that certain values - such as compassion - are important.  But without a set of values one has before looking at the data, then the premise of Rationalia is ridiculous.

This. Also, most of the time it's impossible to get definitive evidence on a problem before it becomes impossibly bad, and it is necessary to act on incomplete proof. Opposition & special interests could use this to sabotage the government - like with climate change action IRL, but worse and for everything.

[DC Al Fine]

The episode of The Simpsons where the smart people govern Springfield ineptly comes to mind.

[Mr. Smith]

Seems rather irrational.

[TJ in Oregon]

This world would be better titled empirica than rationalia, given its strong emphasis on data.