Per Roland, from my first reading some donkey’s ears back, I still - to this day - have a mandible lead the way in every car I’ve ever owned.
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1) Mandatory explicit consent. No traps. Generous Severance Package. If you’re not all in, we don’t want you.
2) Giving well motivated people complete control of their lives in exchange for useful productive work.
3) Point based design for selecting your campus, team, and role is ‘skewed to the dealer’…creating harder to poach staff for less resources. (Think of a RPG Character builder for preferred housing, entertainment, internal governance, and resource distribution methods with an open-source style forking method to allow for the creation of more customized lives)
4) People have the opportunity to re-roll (so to speak) and try new ideas or modify their own semi-annually, with a holdfast type option for the occasional bad design choice.
5) Obtains resources by connecting the Skunkworks Project teams with external teams utilizing a collection of mind hacks to enable ordinarily less aggressive people to target the highest resource opportunities possible
6) Evidence based layer on top (it’s a framework, this is just the seed).
7) Hiring process heavily skewed towards highly motivated, enthusiastic sorts who are friendly to breaking the work/life balance and their support. Remains so for the first 10K staff or so (a tiny fraction of the people who fit the personality profile)
8) After that, refugees and orphans are the primary hiring target (they’d be more effective with the life-customization without so many expectations, and they’re the whole purpose of this thing. Think Kelvin Doe)
It’s probably better to ask ‘how this differs from The Venus Project’ (which is completely incapable of getting off the ground and is fairly limited in variety), ‘how this differs from Valve’ (Campuses as mini-civilization type housing, so if they want cosplay island in exchange for some kicking of ass from a work standpoint, then it’s theirs) or 'how this differs from a nation’ (people have to choose to join, it’s not tied to a chunk of dirt, and it’s acknowledging and exploiting Dunbar’s Number and other real aspects of our biology rather than pretending we’re better than we are). Those are a BIT closer to the target.
We’re starting small though, we don’t even need the first campus to start, and we already have a couple of strong business targets.
Feel free to hammer a topic, we’re hilariously overengineered at this point. (hey, you asked, I had to answer)
I’m the best kind of maniacal planner, and that’s just a tiny bit of the surface. 
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I think there’s something to that. Certainly the way they do it in Great Britain is working better, with a large part of the police force weaponless but ingrained in the community and a smaller number of better trained SWAT style police for when force is needed.
I also think though that there’s a selection process issue we have to overcome. Her first reaction was to catch him and restrain him and she didn’t think about risk and I doubt (given where she’s from) that she’d have risked endangering anybody innocent. We probably have a lot of people on the force that really shouldn’t be in positions of power over others given their reactions, I’m not sure that’s just a training issue, you know?
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Don’t be scared. When they’re done with you, you won’t have to eat through a nosetube and shit in a bag. And not because you’re rotting in the ground either.
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You are such a nerd and I am slightly in awe of you!
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We ride this thread to Valhalla, shiny, and chrome.
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Wait, seriously?
Exactly; that’s the kind of initial response I want to start seeing from our LEOs.
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I know, right? I suddenly feel like I’ve been playing in the minors.
And don’t forget the ‘not endangering innocents’ bit! Wasn’t the point supposed to be that when you took that oath you’d serve and protect? How did some of them turn it to ‘Endanger and actively harm?’
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Absolute power corrupts, absolutely… especially if it’s unchecked power.
All these Mad Max gifs are raising my spirits immensely; I think it might just be time for another viewing.
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Well that’s some tiny captioning…
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Yea, paste went wee for some reason.
This internets thing is hard…
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I wish we all could watch it together this weekend! It’d make a hell of a fun Twitch-stream kinda thing.
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I think you’re on to something as it seems like there is zero “checks & balance” for the enforcement arm of the rich & privileged.
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I’m pretty sure they don’t show up until Drawing either.
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