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Utilitarianism, public policy, optimizing societal resource allocation, the effects of foods and drugs on human health and happiness, and occasionally why my houseplants keep dying despite rigorous data collection.
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Decentralized Institutes of Health
Your military-industrial complex solved coordination for killing: weapons manufacturers, generals, politicians, and factory workers all profit from the same budget, so they all show up. Disease has no such coalition. Your Decentralized Institutes of Health builds one. It does three things: receive treaty funds, allocate them via patient choice and wishocratic voting, and pay based on results instead of grant applications. It's SHAEF for the war on disease. Same selfishness as the military-industrial complex, but pointed at biology instead of each other. Nobody gets paid for writing essays about why they should be allowed to try curing things. They get paid for curing things.
The 1% Treaty: An Incentive-Compatible Approach to Ending War and Disease
6,650 diseases have zero FDA-approved treatments; at current trial capacity, exploring them takes ~443 years. Redirecting 1% of military spending scales capacity 12.3x, cutting the timeline to ~36 years and preventing 10.7 billion deaths. At $0.00177/DALY, 50.3kx more cost-effective than the best existing interventions. The result holds across every specified adoption pathway.
Algorithmic Public Administration
A policy-neutral protocol combining five primitives (transparent ledger, preference aggregation, evidence engine, identity verification, rules-based monetary policy) to replace mechanical government functions, return diverted value to citizens, and stop spending 17.3% of GDP on humans executing functions that are algorithmic in nature, while preserving democratic control over policy ends.
How Much Does It Cost to Buy All the Governments?
What's the maximum cost to achieve any policy change through legal democratic channels? $25B for the US, $200B globally. For high-value reforms like military-to-health reallocation, this yields a benefit-cost ratio exceeding 400,000:1.
Earth Optimization Protocol: Technical Specification
Technical specification for interoperable outcome prize pools using one shared pool model. Two targets by 2040: global HALE and median income matching the 1% Treaty projections. Covers cross-pool proof-of-personhood, a permissionless pool registry, vote, points, and deposit mechanics, direct cross-pool claims, tamper-evident scoreboard aggregation, and a terminal general-welfare metric oracle.
Please Select an Earth: A) Everyone Gets Rich B) Somalia, but Everywhere
Your economists project 2.5% annual growth. This requires 20 consecutive years of nothing going wrong, which your species has never achieved. Meanwhile your destructive economy (military spending plus its cybercrime offspring) is already 11.5% of GDP and growing faster than your actual economy. Historical collapses consistently begin when total extraction hits 35-45% of GDP. This chapter models two paths, the one you're on and the one where you redirect the murder budget. One ends with average income at $34,972. The other ends with cockroaches finding this manual.
Incentive Alignment Bonds: Making Public Goods Financially and Politically Profitable
Government spending is optimized for lobbying intensity, not net societal value. Programs with 100:1 benefit-cost ratios get billions while programs with negative returns get hundreds of billions. Incentive Alignment Bonds flip this by creating a capital pool that rewards politicians (via campaign support and post-office opportunities) for funding high-NSV programs over low-NSV alternatives. The result: public good becomes private profit for both investors and elected officials.
Your FDA Is Unsafe and Ineffective
A drug passes every safety test your species invented. It won't hurt you. Everyone agrees. You still can't have it for another 8.2 years. There is, however, no waiting list for dying. No one blocks that. The testing costs 44.1x more than proven alternatives and excludes 86.1% of the patients who'll actually take it. For every 1 unit of harm prevented, the system creates 3,389 through denied access. Here's how to fix it.
Money Comes From a Building and They Use It to Kill People
Your money is manufactured in a building by people you didn't elect. It has funded unpopular wars that killed 310 million people. They give it to their friends first, then use the rest to buy weapons you didn't ask for. By the time it reaches you, it buys less. This has been happening for a century. Nobody covers it on the news because it is, by design, extremely boring.
The Untapped Therapeutic Frontier
There are 9.5 million possible drug-disease combinations. You've tested 32,500. That's like searching for your keys in 0.34% of your house and declaring them lost. The other 99.7% is sitting right there, untested, because the molecules weren't profitable enough to bother.
Optimocracy: The Evidence Machine
The Optimitron comes free with your first government. Its Optimal Budget Generator (OBG) and Optimal Policy Generator (OPG) check which policies work by looking at the 10,000 places that already tried them. Your species skipped this step and went straight to arguing.
The Decentralized Census Bureau
You spend fourteen billion dollars to count everyone once every ten years. citizenCount() returns in fifty milliseconds. The count is the toy on top; the real product is the sensor array that measures the two numbers the whole machine steers by.
The Immigration Revenue Service
The current system hunts people who want to work. The replacement sells them tickets, taxes the surplus, and pays you the dividend. It shares initials with your tax collector on purpose; it is the only agency in history whose customers queue up, pay, and say thank you.
There Are No Bad Guys (That Is the Problem)
Nobody designed a world that spends 604 dollars on war for every dollar on clinical trials. Four mechanisms produced it without anyone deciding to. That is worse than a conspiracy, because there are no bad guys to remove.
The Biotechnological Imperative
Kant's categorical imperative applied to biotech funding. You cannot universalize 'spend money on killing instead of curing.' Therefore redirecting military spending to clinical trials is not optional. It is a categorical duty.
Join the International Campaign to End War and Disease
Full case for getting organizations and individuals to endorse IC2EWD. Binary A/B choice, ICAN/ICBL precedent, post-WWII data, capital misallocation, fiduciary duty, margin flip, PCT engine, three infinities, integrated business case, and specific asks.
The Decentralized To-Do List for Humanity
A public accountability primitive. Named individuals and institutions are assigned specific tasks (sign the treaty, embed the widget, fund the prize pool). A live death-counter runs next to every unfulfilled task. Anonymous inaction becomes named inaction, priced in humans per day.
The Planetary Constitutional Convention
The Planetary Constitutional Convention is a deliberative process to stress-test and improve the current Earth Optimization instruction manual. Revisions must cover ten required governance functions, pass eleven constitutional constraints, and survive public adversarial review. The ratified revision becomes the current manual.
The Funniest Show in the Universe
Every guest is appointed President of Earth Optimization Services and asked how to optimize Earth using two metrics. Each one inaugurates at least two successors. Production guide: docs/funniest-show-production.md
The Funniest Lawsuit in the Universe
A $200 shareholder love letter (one share of stock is legally sufficient under DGCL § 327) that turns the military lobby into the most effective advocate for pragmatic clinical trials on Earth. This page is everything you need to file it.
Earth Optimization Services Pitch
Diseases are slowly murdering you and everyone you love while your government maintains 122 apocalypses worth of nuclear weapons for one civilization and spends 604 times more on war than on curing the diseases that are 18.4 thousand times more likely to kill you than a terrorist. Now imagine buying the companies responsible, turning their lobbying toward cures instead of war, and getting filthy rich if it works, while still holding real assets if it does not.
The Earth Optimization Prize Treasury
The PRIZE pool is not the Earth Optimization Fund. It is a separate treasury for a conditional prize: if the targets are met, the pool pays Earth Optimization Points holders; if not, depositors split the realized pool.
Wishocracy: Solving the Democratic Principal-Agent Problem Through Pairwise Preference Aggregation
Representative democracy suffers from an inescapable principal-agent problem where elected officials' incentives diverge from citizen welfare. Wishocracy introduces RAPPA (Randomized Aggregated Pairwise Preference Allocation), which aggregates citizen preferences through cognitively tractable pairwise comparisons and creates accountability via Citizen Alignment Scores that channel electoral resources toward politicians who actually represent what citizens want.
The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Global Hegemony
The US spends $886 billion per year on military hegemony. The only quantifiable benefit is $20-200 billion in dollar privilege. The net is negative $674 billion to $1.38 trillion per year. Switzerland spends $7 billion and has better outcomes by every measure.
The Invisible Graveyard: Quantifying the Mortality Cost of FDA Efficacy Lag
After proving a drug is safe, the FDA requires 8.2 years to prove it works before patients can access it. We estimate this delay cost 102 million deaths among people waiting for approved drugs (1962-2024). The human cost in death and disability of blocking good drugs is 3,389 higher than the cost of approving bad ones.
The Continuous Evidence Generation Protocol: Two-Stage Validation (RWE → Pragmatic Trials)
We present the Predictor Impact Score (PIS), a novel composite metric operationalizing Bradford Hill causality criteria for automated signal detection from aggregated N-of-1 observational studies. Combined with pragmatic trial confirmation (based on evidence from 108+ embedded trials), this two-stage framework would generate validated outcome labels at 44.1x lower cost than traditional Phase III trials. This enables continuous, population-scale pharmacovigilance and precision dosing recommendations.
The Earth Optimization Prize
Put money in a pool. Recruit people to vote on the 1% Treaty. If humanity gets healthier and richer by 2040, Earth Optimization Points holders split the pool. If not, depositors get their money back (at 9.03x what they put in).
The Loving Takeover
The companies that build the weapons are publicly traded. For roughly $110 per human, you buy all of them, replace the boards, and hand the lobbyists an optimal budget calculated to maximize median healthy lifespan and median income. The takeover is loving because existing shareholders, employees, and directors live longer and get richer. Nobody loses.
The Cost of War
Since 1900, your governments printed $170 trillion out of nothing and spent it murdering 310 million and destroying many valuable things those people spent their entire lives building. If you had required donations to fund all wars since 1900 and outlawed funding them through printing money, none of this death and destruction would have happened and you would be 23.2x richer today from the compound effects of productive instead of destructive spending.
Genetic Slavery
Your government spends 604 more on weapons than on curing disease, and you think that's a political problem. It's not. It's a hardware problem. You're running 200,000-year-old software optimized for hoarding rocks and fearing strangers, and you've given it nuclear weapons. This chapter is the owner's manual for the brain that's trying to kill you.
NIH Fails to Institute Health
A root cause failure analysis to show why the world's largest medical research institution only allocates 3.3% of its budget to testing which of the thousands of known-safe treatments actually work in humans. Oxford tested COVID treatments for $500 per patient and saved a million lives in 100 days. The NIH spent $1.6 billion and completed zero trials in four years.
Unrepresentative Democracy
Your government spends 604 times more on weapons than on testing which medicines work. You could elect 535 Gandhis and within two years they'd be funding nuclear weapons programs, because the system requires it. Princeton studied 1,779 of your policy decisions and found that public opinion has the same effect on legislation as a houseplant. This chapter explains why you can't vote your way out, and why that's actually fine, because the solution was never better politicians.
A Decentralized FDA
You type in what's wrong with you, see what worked for everyone else, and try it. The outcomes get recorded automatically. We've had this for millennia. Your decentralized FDA is the same thing, built with technology you already have. It's an open protocol that connects treatments to patients, records what actually happens, and publishes the results. Consumer Reports, but for not dying. It cuts trial costs from $41,000 to $929, expands capacity from 1.9 million patients/year to 23.4 million patients/year, and replaces your 40-page drug inserts with Outcome Labels that tell you what actually happened to real humans who took the pill.
Aligning Incentives
Pharmaceutical companies make more money treating you forever than curing you once. Military contractors earn $1,425 per lobbying dollar. Nobody is evil. The incentives are. Rearrange the profit motive so curing disease pays better than causing it, and watch capitalism accidentally save your species.
Wishocracy
How to let billions of people say whether the next marginal public dollar should buy another nuclear weapon system or fund another pragmatic clinical trial, without routing the answer through lobbyists, committees, and middlemen.
You Are a Meat Robot
The usual objection to curing all disease is that it's impossible. You replace 330 billion cells a day. You 3D-print windpipes. You reprogram skin into brain cells. You've already proven your body is a machine, and machines are repairable. The only reason you haven't repaired it is that you spent the repair budget on missiles. This chapter removes the "impossible" objection so you can get back to the "expensive" objection, which the treaty solves.
The Cautionary Tale of Moronia
A planet had every tool needed to cure disease and chose to build weapons instead. They went extinct. Their last words were 'but the economy.' This is a bedtime story for civilizations that can't do math.
Wishonia
On one planet, citizens allocate the budget directly, lobbyists don't exist, and disease was eradicated 4,000 years ago. It uses the same technology you have. The difference is they pointed it at biology instead of each other.
The Most Important Secret in the World: 20 Questions to End War and Disease
A call script for the someone you love. Ask them 20 questions. Get them to ask 2 more people. If the average person asks 2, this reaches 4 billion humans in 32 rounds.
Treaty Feasibility & Cost Analysis
Previous treaties failed because they ran on guilt. Guilt has terrible fuel efficiency. This one runs on greed, which is (regrettably) humanity's only reliable fuel source.
Peace Dividend
Your government spends more on camouflage paint than on curing Alzheimer's. Move 1% of the bomb budget to medicine: $27.2 billion for clinical trials, plus $114 billion saved by slightly fewer explosions. The worst-case scenario is still the largest increase in medical research in history.
Health Dividend
6,650 diseases have zero approved treatments. At your current pace, you'll get to all of them in 443 years. Redirect 1% of military spending and it drops to 36 years, preventing 10.7 billion deaths at 50.3kx the cost-effectiveness of anti-malaria bed nets. The whole thing costs less per year to run than Halloween costumes for dogs. But sure, take your time.
How to Coordinate 10 Million Nonprofits
Your species has roughly 10 million nonprofits and cannot cure Alzheimer's. This chapter explains why, then supplies the exact emails, legal memo, and four-stage activation funnel for fixing it.
Select Your Preferred Sensory Input Channel
Humans require instructions delivered through specific orifices. Choose yours. Available via skull vibration ports, murdered trees, or glowing rectangles.
Wishonia's Wager
You cannot prove you won't suffer forever. You cannot prove you won't be pleasant forever. Both probabilities are greater than zero, both outcomes are infinite, and the cost of nudging the odds is one share of a military contractor. When the stakes are infinite, any finite action is rational. It is Pascal's Wager with the bugs fixed.
Earth Optimization Services
Suboptimal governance costs you $12,600 a year and will get you and everyone you love tortured and murdered by diseases that have no cure because the money that would have found one is a missile. Earth Optimization Services fixes this.
The Slaughterhouse Was a Workaround
You grow a whole suffering animal to extract a few molecules you could brew directly. The optimized civilization deletes the animal, keeps the molecule, and gets most of the planet back.
Theory of Operation
Civilization is a machine with a job: increase pleasant conscious experience and reduce unpleasant conscious experience. HALE and median income are the terminal general-welfare metrics. Here is the schematic, the way a repair manual draws one, so you can see which part failed.
The Universal Security Administration
You spend more administering help than you spend helping. 80+ welfare programs replaced by one for-loop.
The Aligned Election Commission
Your politicians are funded by the people they're supposed to regulate. Wishonia replaces campaign finance with a single alignment score.
The Decentralized Accountability Office
You pay 3,400 humans to audit a ledger that could audit itself. Then you wait eighteen months for the results.
The Algorithmic Monetary Authority
Twelve humans around a table decide what your money is worth. The replacement is one formula, and it cannot be lobbied, panicked, or invited to Jackson Hole.
The Transparent Securities Commission
Your SEC protects you from the best-returning asset class unless you are already rich. The replacement protects you with information instead of exclusion.
The Drug Treatment Administration
The DEA becomes the DTA. One letter changes; the war ends. Addiction is a disease, and you already bought the machine that treats diseases.
The Proof: Overview
This Already Works - Pragmatic trials prove 44.1x efficiency. History proves every component. Switzerland, war bonds, landmines, the 3.5% rule, and Wall Street's craziest bets all prove humans can accidentally do smart things when properly motivated.
They Cut the Bomb Budget 87% and Everyone Got Richer
After World War 2, they cut the bomb budget 87.6% and walked into the largest rise in living standards in history. Then they put it back. Here is what happened.
Why Hasn't Anyone Done This?
People have. Many times. Sachs, the WHO, the Copenhagen Consensus, Nobel laureates. They all stalled for the same reason: no self-sustaining financial mechanism. The math was never the missing piece. The engine was.
Your Personal Benefits
How much money you personally lose if civilization continues optimizing for murder instead of medicine, and what happens to your bank account if it stops. Includes a calculator for the selfishly rational.
Bombs vs. Biotechnology: The ROI
A sourced cost-benefit analysis of redirecting 1% of military spending to clinical trials: disease queue, GDP growth channels, per-capita returns, and biotech margin advantage.
The Initiating Node Memo
A sponsor-facing memo for institutions considering whether to host the first 90-day Earth Optimization Prize pilot. The host role is to convene, publish, seed, and measure without becoming the mechanism's sovereign.
Institution Outreach Email Templates
Reusable outreach email templates for institutions considering whether to host the first Earth Optimization Prize pilot.
The Survey to End War and Disease
Five questions that, if a majority of humans answered them, could put humanity on a trajectory to end war and disease.
Survey Organization Kit
The terms for organizations distributing the Survey to End War and Disease: a unique link, an anonymized report of your members' responses, recognition on the results page, and compensation per verified response if grant funding is secured.
Declaration of Optimization
The purpose of government is to promote the general welfare, measured by the median healthy life years and median after-tax inflation-adjusted income of its citizens. This document is a polite request that they do so.
Earth Optimization Protocol v1
Humans are the contestants in the Earth Optimization Prize. This paper documents the current open-source instruction manual for helping humanity raise healthy life years and median income by 2040. Fork it and improve it to help humanity win faster.
Pre-Built Google Ads Campaign for Coalition Partners
A ready-to-load Google Ads campaign template for nonprofit partners running the 1% Treaty voter-acquisition channel through their existing Google Ad Grant.
Building Your AI Coordination Army
Humans evolved to coordinate hunting parties of 20. You need to coordinate millions. Your brains literally can't do it. Robots can.
Recruitment & Propaganda Plan
You want to end war and disease but don't have a nonprofit, a bank account, or anything to offer anyone. Here's how to recruit 100,000 humans before you have anything except an argument. It's a Kickstarter where the reward tier is 'possibly not dying,' which is the most compelling crowdfunding offer in history.
Getting Started
A first-ninety-days roadmap for anyone running the treaty campaign with a nonprofit, a website with the voting widget, and the book. Assumes no money, no staff, and no time. Most of the work fits in four focused hours a day.
Distribution Checklist
A systematic checklist for repurposing the book and its arguments into platform-native formats across Medium, Substack, LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Reddit, Hacker News, and short-form video. The book exists. The job left is putting it in front of humans on the channels they already visit.
Earth Optimization Commission
Every commissioner is appointed President of Earth Optimization Services on camera, given two metrics, and asked what they would do first. Each one inaugurates at least two successors. A binary tree reaches 8 billion in 33 generations.
Presidential Inauguration Ceremony
The ceremony script for commissioning a new President of Earth Optimization Services. Two questions, one commission, under two minutes.
The Humanity Manager Employment Agreement
Your employment contract for the most important job on Earth, which is fixing Earth. The good news: you already have the job. This is the part you sign.
The Love Letter
The friendly front door of the Loving Takeover: a letter you send to the board of a company that pays lobbyists to keep your money in missiles instead of medicine. It opens with 'I love you,' and ends by making them richer. Anyone can send it; owning one share makes them answer.
The Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposal
Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposal, 500-word supporting statement, and cover letter. The escalation after 60 days.
The Eisenhower Curve
In 1961 the retiring five-star general warned the country about the military-industrial complex. The country nodded solemnly and spent the next sixty years building exactly what he warned against. The empirical literature now puts a number on it: an extra one percentage point of military spending as a share of GDP reduces economic growth by approximately one percentage point. The country that won World War II had 96.7% less military spending than the United States has today, and it won because its productive economy had not been cannibalized to fund a peacetime military. The current allocation is the mechanism by which the United States is losing strategic competition to China.
Treaty Financial Plan
The 1% Treaty campaign's cash-flow model (raise, pass, manage), distinct from the Earth Optimization Services equity raise. Most financial plans are complicated because the writers are confused or lying. This one has three steps. Raise $1 billion (using greed, not generosity, because greed is faster). Spend it to pass the treaty. Manage $27.2 billion a year forever, with 80% curing diseases, 10% paying investors, and 10% keeping politicians obedient. The corruption is capped at 20% and fully transparent, which already makes it the most honest government program in your country's history.
Earth Optimization Fund
The EOS money product: buy the companies that already buy policy, then point the machinery at health and wealth. Investors buy EOS equity directly. Berkshire model, public listing as soon as the proof exists.
Treaty Investor Risk Analysis
VICTORY Incentive Alignment Bonds vs. Traditional Venture Capital - Analysis of the unique risk profile of the 1% Treaty campaign, comparing its political arbitrage model to the market-risk model of venture capital. This covers the treaty/IAB campaign instruments, not Earth Optimization Services shares.
Ubiquitous Pragmatic Trial Impact Analysis: How to Prevent a Year of Death and Suffering for 84 Cents
Only 15 diseases/year get their first treatment each year. With 6,650 diseases lacking effective treatments, the backlog would take 443 years to clear. Integrating pragmatic trials into standard healthcare increases trial capacity 12.3x, cutting that timeline from 443 years to 36 years. The average untreated disease gets a treatment 212 years earlier, saving 10.7 billion deaths at $0.842 per year of healthy life saved.
United States Efficiency Audit
Systems audit estimating an annual U.S. efficiency gap of $4.98 trillion, with $2.49 trillion recoverable at OECD-median performance across direct spending waste, compliance burden, policy-induced GDP loss, and system inefficiency.
Optimocracy: Causal Inference on Cross-Jurisdictional Policy Data to Maximize Median Health and Wealth
Thousands of jurisdictions have made different policy and budget choices over decades, creating a natural experiment. Optimocracy applies causal inference to this cross-jurisdictional time-series data to identify which policies predict above-average median income and healthy life years. It publishes evidence-based recommendations for every major vote and scores every legislator against them. Getting anyone to act on the scoreboard is a separate question with several answers, none of which require a government's permission.
The Optimal Policy Generator: A Causal Inference Protocol for Maximizing Median Health and Wealth Through Public Policy
The Optimal Policy Generator (OPG) produces systematic public policy recommendations for jurisdictions at any level (country, state, city), generating prioritized enact/replace/repeal/maintain recommendations to maximize real after-tax median income growth and median healthy life years, based on quasi-experimental evidence from centuries of policy variation data.
The Optimal Budget Generator: A Causal Inference Protocol for Maximizing Median Health and Wealth Through Public Goods Funding
The Optimal Budget Generator (OBG) uses causal inference, diminishing returns modeling, and cost-effectiveness evidence to determine optimal public goods funding levels that maximize two terminal general-welfare metrics: real after-tax median income growth and median healthy life years. For each spending category, OBG estimates an Optimal Spending Level (OSL) and produces a gap analysis showing where current government budgets are over- or underfunded relative to evidence-based benchmarks. The Budget Impact Score (BIS) measures confidence in each recommendation based on the quality of causal evidence.
Right to Trial & FDA Upgrade Act
A universal right to try, with evidence. The Act authorizes commercial access after initial human safety testing and makes every covered treatment use teach us something.
Patient's Right to Trial Act: Potential Impact of Adoption in All 50 States
A conditional schedule-shift model of state legislation that lets post-Phase-1 treatments finance their own evidence generation and accelerates treatments for global diseases and aging.
Drug Development Cost Increase Analysis
Rigorous analysis of the 105x increase in drug development costs from pre-1962 to 2024, using Baily (1972) academic study with CPI adjustments and sensitivity analysis
Correcting the AIs
Copy-paste corrections for LLM outputs about disease eradication, war redirect, the shirt, and the funniest joke in universe history. Every thumbs-down with a canonical answer propagates into future training data.
Catsoline: A Feline-Actuated Propulsion System
The first commercially viable propulsion system powered entirely by a single startled domestic cat. 340% thermal efficiency. No fossil fuel. No patent. Build it freely.
The Oxford RECOVERY Trial
Oxford spent $500 per patient, saved a million lives in 100 days, and the whole trial cost less than a single F-35 fighter jet. America spends $41,000 per patient. This is the proof that your species already knows how to do this.
Real-World Evidence Historical Success (Pre-1962)
How decentralized physician trials from 1883-1962 achieved 4 years/decade life expectancy gains, and what happened when the 1962 regulations replaced them with industry-controlled trials
Medical Research Spending: The $67.5 billion Lie
A comprehensive breakdown of how little humanity invests in not dying, distinguishing broad "research" from actual cures.
Is This Crazy?
A 1% redirect of military spending to pragmatic trials claims to avert 565 billion DALYs at $0.00177 each. One-page calculation chain for economist review.
Source Quotes and References
Every claim in this manual has a receipt. 347 sources, because 'trust me, I'm an alien' is not a citation format your species recognizes.
The 1% Treaty
Your governments possess nuclear weapons sufficient to end civilization 122 times but have not cured Alzheimer's once. This treaty requires them to be 1% more rational.
The Court of Humanity
A court where any human can sue any government, sovereign immunity is not a defense, and the 1% Treaty is the settlement offer.
Humanity v. Government
Three counts of negligent mass homicide against the governments of Earth. The body count, the bill, and the only remedy that works on actual humans.
Frequently Asked Objections
Fun facts for those reasonably skeptical of spending 1% more on helping sick people than killing them.
Global Referendum Strategy
Humanity downloaded TikTok over 4 billion times to watch strangers twerk. Getting 4.13 billion verified people to click 'yes' on not dying should be easier. Here's how, with math.
Legal Architecture
Bribing politicians is illegal unless you call it 'lobbying' or 'campaign contributions.' Then it's protected speech. Here's the legal architecture for saving humanity using your own ridiculous laws.
Skull Auditory Port Edition
Step-by-step instructions for bribing humanity into not murdering you, narrated directly into your head. Free on every app that puts sounds in your skull auditory ports.
What Matters
The target is not GDP, votes, points, or money. The target is conscious experience. Everything else is instrumentation.
Diagnostic Summary
A diagnostic survey of the systems that allocate your species' resources to killing instead of curing
The Cost of Disease
The annual bill for letting your bodies fall apart. It's more than all the money on Earth, which is impressive in a terrible way.
Special Education
Earth Optimization Services' free, AI-tutored special education. It teaches you the manual to the level your job needs. Called special education because everyone needs it, including you, including me.
How to Not Build Most of It
A dFDA strategy for getting other people to build everything through open APIs and bounties, like WordPress but for not dying.
Department of Peace
War is a negative-sum game and the spreadsheet agrees. Wishonia's replacement for the Department of Defense requires zero lines of code.
The Automated Revenue Service
74,000 pages of tax code replaced by six lines of code. The IRS employs 95,000 humans to do what a smart contract does automatically.
The Decentralized Congress
535 humans vote on 5,000-page bills they have not read, funded by the industries the bills regulate. The replacement is you, twenty questions a year, with the evidence attached.
The Delusion of Insignificance
You are the entire universe from the only perspective you will ever have. The universe is telling itself it is too small to matter. That is the delusion.
The Two Futures
Two timelines diverge from this moment. One ends in extinction, the other in transcendence. The only difference is a 1% budget reallocation.
Global Survey Grant Proposal
A proposal to measure public views on clinical-trial access, public spending, and government accountability, with five questions, a first-year budget, and a publication plan.
The Legislation Package
Lobbyists write bills and give them to politicians who can't read. You're about to become the best lobbyist in history, except your bills actually help people instead of killing them.
How to End War and Disease
Your orientation film. 1950s educational film style, 3 minutes, producible with AI for the budget of a medium wedding.
Earth Optimization Day
One day a year, every human votes to make Earth 1% less irrational. The treaty percentage ratchets up another percent, and politicians who refused to sign become named entries on a public list.
The Vandalism Handout
One sheet. Two sides. Side 1: how to vandalize a closet. Side 2: what the recipient reads. Print it, tuck it in collars, repeat until war and disease have ended.
Your Desk Is Ready, President
Congratulations, President: fewer wars, fewer boring funerals, and lots and lots of money are now yours to claim. Here is the future, the bill, and the assistant who comes with the job.
Commission of the President
The formal instrument of your appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of Earth Optimization Services. Yours to print and frame. No President of the United States has ever received one.
Notice of Termination
A performance review and termination letter, addressed to every elected official with authority over military spending.
Per-Contractor Fact Sheets
Eight contractor fact sheets for the master love letter: addresses, lobbying figures, SEC EDGAR links, filing forums.
The Plaintiff Media Kit
Press release, journalist list, op-ed, social media kit, interview Q&A, and T+60d follow-up release. Print it and have it in hand on filing day.
The Filing-Day Checklist
A single printable one-page checklist for the human filing the shareholder love letter. Run through it on filing day with a pen.
The Apocalypse Markup
The Price of Apocalypse is $752 million per year. Your governments spend $2.72 trillion. That is an 3.6kx markup on the end of civilization.
The Political Dysfunction Tax
Governance dysfunction imposes large per-person annual costs and suppresses long-run compounding. This paper quantifies the opportunity ledger and efficiency gap with model-linked parameters.
API & Data Indexes
Machine-readable data indexes and APIs for building tools, agents, or integrations with the Disease Eradication Plan.
Methodology, Parameters, and Calculations
Parameter definitions, formulas, uncertainty ranges, and data sources.
How to End War and Disease (for Busy People)
A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimizing Your Terrible Civilization
The Funniest Joke in the Universe
How to end war and disease through vandalism.
Campaign Budget: The $1 billion Legal Bribery Machine
Conclusion
Copyright
Optimization Summary
Optimized replacements for the systems identified in the failure analysis
Election Law
How to Buy Politicians Legally
Papers & Publications
Academic papers and working drafts from the Disease Eradication Plan project.
About This Manual
A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimizing Your Terrible Civilization
Think by Numbers
Earth as it is and as it could be, in numbers: healthy life expectancy, income, cures per year, the cost of a trial, and the loop that moves them.
You Are a Meat Robot and Death Is Just a Technical Problem
You replace 330 billion cells daily, 3D-print windpipes, and reprogram skin into brain cells. Your body is a machine. Death is a maintenance failure. You've been writing poetry about it when you should have built a wrench.
Genetic Slavery: Your Brain Is a Museum of Obsolete Instincts Piloting a Nuclear Arsenal
You run 200,000-year-old brain software optimized for hoarding rocks and fearing strangers. You've given it nukes. 5% of your decisions are conscious. Your amygdala handles the rest. This is your owner's manual.
The Health Dividend: What $27 Billion in Not-Bombs Buys You
7,000 diseases have zero treatments. At current pace, you'll cure them all in 450 years. Redirect 1% of military spending and it drops to 50. The system costs less to run than Halloween costumes for dogs.
Before 1962, Drugs Got Approved Faster and Life Expectancy Grew 2.5x Faster
From 1883-1960, life expectancy grew 3.82 years/decade via decentralized doctor trials. In 1962, Congress "helped" and growth dropped 60% overnight. Drug costs went from $1.2M to $1B. Coincidence requires less precision.
How Much Does It Cost to Save the World? About $250 Million
Previous treaties cost $25-50M to get signatures. Even at 5% success probability, a 1% health treaty is 30,000x more cost-effective than anti-malaria bed nets. The downside is a yacht. The upside is no more disease.
The Cybercrime Economy and the Inverse Singularity
Cybercrime costs $10.5 trillion annually—larger than every economy except the US and China. AI will scale this parasitic drain exponentially, creating an "inverse singularity" where evil profit margins attract the smartest minds, while governments waste money on tanks instead of cybersecurity.
The Peace Dividend: What 1% Fewer Bombs Buys You
Move 1% of the $2.7T bomb budget to medicine: $27.2B for trials, $114B saved from fewer explosions. Your worst case is the largest medical funding increase in history.
The RECOVERY Trial: How Britain Saved a Million Lives for $24 Million
Oxford spent $500/patient and found a $1 steroid saves 1/3 of COVID deaths in 100 days. US trials cost $41,000/patient. That's 82x worse, and people die waiting. The cure was from 1957.
Disease Costs $397 Trillion a Year: Your Body Is a Lemon and Nobody Called the Mechanic
Disease kills 130,000 people daily and costs $397T/year—more than global GDP. You spend 40x more on bombs than medicine. Your body is a machine. Fix it.
War Costs Humanity $11.4 Trillion a Year, or $113,551 Over Your Lifetime
The full cost of war: $2.7T military + $2.4T dead people + $1.9T blown-up buildings + $3.7T in lost growth = $11.4T/year. That's 12.7% of global GDP. The Pentagon can't find $2.5T of its own stuff.
The NIH Spent $1 Trillion and Eradicated Zero Diseases
Oxford tested COVID treatments for $500/patient and saved a million lives in 100 days. The NIH spent $1.6B and completed zero trials in four years. Only 3.3% of its budget tests cures.
Humanity Spends 56 Cents Per Person Per Year on Curing Disease
Governments claim $68B on "medical research" but only $4.5B goes to clinical trials—56 cents per human. That's a 604:1 military-to-cure ratio. We spend more on pet food than on not dying.
Please Select an Earth: A) Everyone Gets Rich B) Somalia, but Everywhere
Your destructive economy (military + cybercrime) is 12-15% of GDP and growing faster than your actual economy. The Soviet Union collapsed at 15-18%. You have about 15 years. Choose wisely.
Right to Trial: The Radical Idea of Letting Sick People Try Medicine
86% of patients are excluded from clinical trials. 95% of rare diseases have zero FDA-approved treatments. The Right to Trial Act says: what if sick people could try things? Controversial.
How to Prevent a Year of Death and Suffering for 84 Cents
6,650 diseases have zero FDA-approved treatments. Pragmatic trials cost $929 vs $41,000. Scale them up and you get $0.84 per DALY. That's cheaper than a Mars bar. Why haven't we done this?
Continuous Evidence Generation: Testing Drugs for a Dollar
Stage 1 costs 10 cents per patient. Stage 2 costs $929. Traditional trials cost $41,000. That's a 44x reduction. The drugs don't know the difference.
Why Your Medicine Costs 105 Times More Than It Should
Drug development costs increased 105x since 1962. Before regulations, drugs cost $24.7M to develop. Now it's $2.6 billion. The pills haven't gotten 105 times better.
The 1% Treaty: Bribing Our Way to Not Dying
What if we took 1% of global military spending ($27.2B/year) and used it to actually save lives? 10.7 billion deaths averted. The maths checks out. The species does not.
US Efficiency Audit: A $4.9 Trillion Dollar Oops
The US government wastes $4.9T annually—17% of GDP. The Pentagon can't find $2.5T of its own assets. Americans spend 7.9 billion hours doing taxes. Systems engineering says we can fix this.
The Optimal Budget Generator: What If Budgets Made Sense?
Pragmatic clinical trials: current $0.5B, optimal $50B (9,900% underinvestment). Military: current $850B, optimal $459B. Agricultural subsidies: optimal $0. This spreadsheet is devastating.
The Price of Political Change: Utopia Is Surprisingly Affordable
The maximum cost to reform all US policy is $25.5 billion. The return is $84.8 quadrillion. That's an 84.8 million:1 ROI. The real question isn't can we afford it, but why haven't we bought it.
How to End War and Disease: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimizing Your Terrible Civilization
A manual for ending war and disease using financial incentives, pragmatic trials, and the radical assumption that humans respond to money. Spoiler: they do. 10.7 billion lives at stake.
The Political Dysfunction Tax: $101 Trillion Reasons to Be Annoyed
Civilization runs at 51.9% efficiency. The governance gap costs $101 trillion/year—$50,500 per household. We're leaving $1.16M per person on the table because meetings run long.
Incentive Alignment Bonds: Making Greed Save Lives
What if saving millions of lives was a good investment? IABs pay 272% ROI to investors who bribe politicians into doing their jobs. Global household wealth is $454T. Opposition is $5T. Do the maths.
Wishocracy: What If Politicians Had to Do What We Actually Want?
Voter preferences have near-zero effect on policy. Citizens want 45:1 medical research vs military spending, but get the reverse. RAPPA fixes this with a slider and a dream.
Optimocracy: What If We Just Copied the Countries That Aren't Failing?
The US spends 3% more of GDP on government than Switzerland yet lives 6.5 fewer years. What if we just... looked at what works elsewhere and did that? Causal inference says yes.
The Optimal Policy Generator: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V for Good Governance
46,000+ country-years of policy data. 3,500+ US state-years. Centuries of natural experiments we've never analysed. The OPG just asks: what worked? Then suggests doing that.
Keynesian Creationism and Intelligently Designed Economies
Keynesians believe Federal Reserve designs economic order from chaos like creationists believe in intelligent design. Both can't grasp complex adaptive systems. Evolution and markets don't need planners.
Articles
Every Think by Numbers article, in curated order. Data-driven analysis of government spending, healthcare, economics, and public policy.
It Takes 3.5% of the Population to Change the World
Harvard study shows 3.5% active participation changes society. Not clicking "like." Actual showing up. Your government publishes the percentage needed.
FDA Fails to Apply Basic Rational Cost-Benefit Analysis to Regulatory Decisions
FDA banned monoclonal antibodies despite 30% efficacy. They ignored $3.7T Long COVID cost, risked $600M in preventable hospitalizations.
Voter Support for a Bill Has Near Zero Influence on Whether It Will Become Law
Princeton study shows 90% of Americans have zero impact on legislation. 0% or 100% support both equal 30% passage chance. Democracy is flat line.
IRS Automation Could Save Americans $191 Billion
IRS already has your data; automating returns could save $191 billion. Instead, they make you spend 13 hours transcribing what they know and threaten prison if you miscalculate.
Bottled Water Costs 40x More: Why Don't Poor Areas Have Water Plants?
Roatan residents spend $740/year on bottled water. Building a water plant costs 40x less over 25 years. The math is third-grade arithmetic. Like using a helicopter to commute one block.
War Costs the Average Person $74,259 Over Their Lifetime
War costs you $74,259 in lifetime taxes. That's a car's worth of money spent on bombs instead of things that don't explode people.
Only 0.000000002% of Potential Treatments Have Been Studied
Only 21,000 of 1.162 quadrillion possible drug combinations tested. Would take 3.2 billion years at current pace. Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
How many NET lives are saved by efficacy trials?
FDA regulations killed medical progress by 70% in 1962. Lifespan growth immediately cut in half. Drug development now costs 13 times more.
How The Federal Reserve Steals from the Poor and Gives to the Rich
Before 1971 productivity and wages grew together. After 1971 they suddenly split. Productivity kept rising, wages flatlined. Federal Reserve counterfeiting is Robin Hood in reverse.
How to Protect Yourself Against the Invisible Inflation Burglar
Monetary inflation (money supply) vs price inflation (CPI). Money supply exploded, prices stayed stable. Inflation is hidden flat tax governments use instead of asking citizens to pay.
Zombie Companies Will Lead to America's Lost Decade
Fed loans 0% interest to zombie companies that don't produce value. Japan's approach gave them 3 decades to recover. Volcker's alternative (1979) crashed then boomed.
Military-Industrial Complex Funnels Wealth to 4 Counties
America's 4 richest counties all surround the Pentagon. Defense contractors discovered money can't travel far from where it's printed.
Top 1% Received all of the $4 Trillion Printed in 2020
Federal Reserve printed $4 trillion in 2020. Top 1% wealth increased by exactly $4 trillion that year. St. Louis Fed confirms. The math matches perfectly. Totally normal economic policy.
Subconscious Processes 27,500 Times More Data than the Conscious Mind
Your subconscious processes 27,500x more information than you're aware of. You're just the guy who takes credit.
The Majority of Americans Didn't Support the American Revolution
Only 33-45% supported American Revolution. 16% backed the king. Half tried avoiding it. America founded by minority opinion that made everyone 52X richer.
Democracy Gonna Make You Rich, Bitch!
Democracy increases GDP 20% over 30 years. Only get-rich-quick scheme that works. Like compound interest except voting rights make money somehow.
Most Voters Believe Their Own Party Will Win
87% of Democrats and 62% of Republicans both predicted they'd win same election. Math doesn't work. Brain lies to you wearing statistics costume.
How much does it cost to develop a drug?
Median drug development cost is $985 million including failed trials (2009-2018). In 1893 doctors just tested drugs and reported results. Now we have a Valley of Death instead.
When the government prints new money, who gets it?
Federal Reserve creates money electronically, buys bonds from investors. Bondholders get free money first. By the time it reaches you, inflation already ate it. Money printer go brr.
Depression Rates Correlate Highly with Changes in Diet and Autoimmune Disease
US suicide rate jumped 40% as vegetable oil went up and actual vegetables dropped 10%. Inflammation steals tryptophan needed to make serotonin.
Is it morally optimal to rescue a cat from the pound?
Saving one cat kills 600 chickens over 15 years. Utilitarianism proves petting your cat is morally worse than euthanizing it.
How to Identify the Bottom of a Stock Market Correction
Stock prices follow profits until positive feedback loops create bubbles. More buyers raise prices, higher prices attract more buyers. Then the music stops and someone's holding the bag.
Long-Term Trends in Human Well-Being
For 10,000 years life expectancy was 28 and GDP was $100. Around 1800 both went vertical. Humanity spent 10,000 years in tutorial mode then someone pressed start.
We Have Enough Nuclear Bombs to Kill Everyone 2.6 Times
15,000 nuclear weapons can kill everyone 2.6 times. After the first death, you're just showing off with expensive redundancy.
Free Advanced Interpretation of Your 23andMe Raw Data
FDA restricted what 23andMe tells you about your DNA. Takes doctors 17 years to use new genetic research. Free tools interpret your data now.
US Stock Market Grew 3 Times Faster Under Obama Than Trump
First two years Trump stocks up 21%. First two years Obama stocks up 71.2%. That's 3.4x faster. Trump's gain is just 50-year average. Like getting a participation trophy for existing.
What is the cause of the opioid crisis?
Opioid deaths increased 1,000% while meth deaths rose 5,105% and cocaine 670%. Government blames drugs, ignores untreated mental illness epidemic.
Has political power become more decentralized over time?
Democracies doubled, autocracies halved in 60 years. Progress measured by fewer countries where one person decides if you die. Bar is underground.
How much money is there in the world?
World GDP is $127.8 trillion divided by 7.3 billion people equals $17,500 per person. Money is collective hallucination. Before money we traded chickens for cows. Much more efficient now.
What percent of economists support protectionist tariffs?
Reuters polled 60 economists about steel tariffs. 0% supported them. Zero as in number before one. Like asking 60 doctors if you should eat broken glass and getting zero yes votes.
How much do we spend on the military?
US military spending 1914-2007. Countries spend trillions preparing to kill each other, then kill each other, then prepare again. Beautiful cycle.
How many people have Alzheimer's disease?
44 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's. NIH spends $327 per victim while Americans spend $1,200 per person on alcohol to forget things temporarily.
How many Americans are killed by terrorists?
3,222 Americans killed by terrorists vs $1.1 trillion spent—$1.1 billion per victim. Yet we call this counterterrorism.
Prioritize Your To-Do List By Converting To Present Value
Convert time savings to present value using 10% discount rate. Your commute is worth $8k today, which helps decide if moving beats Netflix.
Fecal Transplant Reduces Autism Symptoms 45%
Poop transplants reduced autism symptoms 45% by fixing gut bacteria. Turns out moving microbes between intestines works better than most treatments.
Americans Spend More on Weight Loss Products Than It Would Take to End World Hunger
Americans spend $60 billion on weight loss while ending world hunger costs $30 billion. One group pays to subtract calories, the other needs calories.
You're 14 Times More Likely To Die of Cancer Than From an Opioid Overdose
Cancer kills 14 times more people than opioids (1 in 7 vs 1 in 96). Media covers opioids wall-to-wall. Cancer gets a 5K run with matching shirts.
Less REM Sleep Linked to Dementia
Every 1% reduction in REM sleep increases dementia risk 9%. Brain has self-cleaning mode that requires sleep. You ignore it and drink coffee instead.
How much does the average American pay in Taxes?
Average American household pays $10,489 in personal taxes yearly (14% of income). Federal budget is $4.4 trillion divided by 328 million people equals $13,403 spent per person. Math gets weird.
How much does the government spend per person?
Government spends $65,337 per voter annually. You could buy a car or pay student loans. Instead government bought fighter jets for you.
How much does the US spend on the military compared to the rest of the world?
US spends 37% of global military budget with 4.4% of world population. $600 billion on weapons. Switzerland makes chocolate instead.
Anti-Terrorism Spending 50,000 Times More Than on Any Other Cause of Death
$500 million per terrorism death vs $2,000 per stroke death. You're 3x more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by terrorists.
Iran US Foreign Relations: A History of Violence
0 Americans killed by Iran vs 290+ shot down in civilian airliner. US overthrew Iran's democracy in 1953 for oil.
Financial Sector Costs Us More than Any Other Sector In Economy
Finance jumped from 4% of GDP (1960s) to 8% (2007), costing $2 trillion annually—more than healthcare, construction, food combined. It's computer money-shuffling.
There's a 0.00001% Chance that Your Vote Will Matter
Your vote has 0.00001% chance of mattering. Car accident driving to polls has 0.002% chance. You're 200X more likely to get injured than change outcome.
How Much Direct Suffering Is Caused by Various Animal Foods?
Farmed catfish causes 20,000 times more suffering than milk per kg. The math is third grade, but your dinner choices remain catastrophic.
Crowdsourcing Utopia: Solve All the World's Problems in 3 Easy Steps
Governments spend $1 trillion on terrorism (kills fewer than lightning) while children starve. Third-grade math could fix this.
Governments Spend $1.8 Trillion Murdering Us and Destroying Our Property Annually
$1.8 trillion global military spending vs $100 million brain research. Chart required 17,000 pixels high to show military spending properly.
$1.5 Trillion Has Been Wasted on a Drug War that Hasn't Even Reduced Drug Use
$1.5 trillion spent on drug war enforcement with zero change in addiction rates. Like paying someone $10 billion yearly to not do their job.
$2.3 Trillion Missing from Pentagon
Pentagon lost $2.3 trillion announced Sept 10, 2001. Next day planes hit towers. Perfect timing for forgetting about military waste.
Felicific Calculus: Formula, Morality Calculator & Example
In 1789, Bentham reduced all morality to 7 variables. Slide them in our morality calculator. Killing your cat still scores negative.
Algonomy: A Framework for Dealing with Suffering
47 fields study suffering but none study suffering itself. It's like having Flame, Smoke, and Heat departments but nobody puts out fires.
How to Overcome Bias in Crowdsourcing Participants
Your vote has same odds as winning lottery 7 times. CAPTCHA for stupidity filters crowdsourcing bias by removing people who guess wrong.
From the Bankers Who Brought You President Obama Comes NEW PRESIDENT™!
Obama budget $3.80 trillion vs Romney $3.79 trillion. 0.26% difference. Same banks fund both. Democracy is working perfectly wrong.
World Press (and Pothi) Freedom Index
Only 1 of 180 countries has press freedom like 1st Amendment. North Korea, Eritrea, Turkmenistan are information black holes.
Get Society Rich Quick: The Ideal Level of Government Spending
Government spending above 25% of GDP slows economic growth. OECD countries prove it. Every dollar above 25% is basically lighting money on fire and calling it policy.
95% of Suicide Attacks Target Occupying Armies
95% of suicide terrorism targets occupying militaries. We invaded to stop terrorism, making terrorism increase 89% instead.
Meet the Backers: Bankers Flip-Flop to Romney
Banks needed $125 billion TARP bailout. Same banks gave $1 million each to Obama 2008 and Romney 2012. Both candidates support bailouts.
Are most Muslims terrorists? Are most terrorists Muslim?
42% of suicide attacks (1981-2000) by non-Muslims. Top terrorist group was Hindu Marxists, so the confusion requires third-grade math.
GOP Presidential Candidates' Budget Plans EXPOSED!!!
Ron Paul proposed $1 trillion cuts. Romney, Gingrich, Cain only $20 billion each. Real inflation 10% not 3.5%. Hidden tax hits hardest.
Fraudulent Defense Contractors Paid $1 Trillion
Pentagon paid $1.1 trillion to convicted fraudulent defense contractors over 10 years, then gave them raises for stealing from taxpayers.
Unrepresentative Democracy – Government by the Millionaires and for the Millionaires
Half of Congress are millionaires vs 1% of population. When representatives are 50X wealthier than you, they represent millionaires. Shocking discovery.
How the US Monetary System Steals from the Poor and Gives to the Rich
Banking system mechanism transfers wealth from those at bottom to those at top through inflation and fiat money creation. Watch how the con works in this explainer.
Housing Bubble Wastes $2 Trillion on 14 Million Empty Houses
Americans built 14 million empty houses costing $2 trillion because the Fed made borrowing artificially cheap. The government's success destroyed wealth on a massive scale.
A More Progressive Tax System Makes People Happier
Study of 59,634 people in 54 countries proves progressive taxes make people happier—they report better life satisfaction and respect than flat-tax countries.
Voters See 'Corporate Welfare' Programs As A Good Place To Cut Government Spending
70% oppose weapons subsidies, 46% oppose farm subsidies. Government does it anyway. Democracy works perfectly if you order cinder blocks not pizza.
Government Pays Doctors $44,000 to Use an iPad
Government gave doctors earning $200k up to $44k for iPads costing $500. Took taxes from staff making $25/hour who then lost jobs to the technology.
Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
US spends $92 billion on corporate welfare vs $59 billion on food stamps. CEOs need help buying medium-sized yachts apparently.
Debt Will Swell Under Top GOP Hopefuls' Tax Plans
Gingrich's plan adds $7 trillion to debt while calling himself fiscal conservative—like buying a Ferrari on credit card and negotiating the interest rate.
What Would Have Happened If We Let AIG Fail?
AIG bailout cost $2,000 per household. Goldman gave Obama $43 million, got billions back. Like ordering bottle service except you weren't at club.
Bailout Costs $16,000 per Worker
Fed printed $6 trillion for bank bailouts. Stock prices soared, rich got richer, poor can't afford houses. Inflation only 1.5% though.
Obama to cut deficit in half... After quadrupling it.
Obama quadrupled deficit to $2 trillion, then cut to $533 billion. Media called it fiscal responsibility. Like setting house on fire then putting out half.
The Future of US Government Debt
Debt projected to reach 350% of GDP by 2080 if policies continue unchanged. It's not a prediction; it's a math problem with one solution: something breaks.
Historical Examples Show Government Intervention Only Prolongs Economic Downturns
Chile recovered from 1982 crisis in 2.5 years without bailouts. Mexico took 7 years with intervention. Government stimulus is like using a flamethrower to put out a fire.
There's about a 0.1% Chance that COVID-19 Coincidentally Arose in Nature near the Wuhan Institute of Virology
0.1% chance novel coronavirus appeared near the only 5 labs studying this exact virus. Basic math meets uncomfortable facts.
A World Run By Economists
Every Econ 101 textbook teaches incentives, costs, and second-order effects. Most government policies ignore all three. Like someone passing driver's ed then driving into a lake on purpose.
USPS Has Received Over $45 Billion from Taxpayers to Reduce the Cost of Junk Mail, Killing Billions of Trees
USPS junk mail 65% discount kills 100 million trees annually. You pay $126/year so credit card offers arrive faster. Beautiful circle of life.
Why Think by Numbers?
70% of voters don't know how much government spends on anything. Your lizard brain beats your rational cortex 206 times per day.
I Am Biased
Humans invented both antibiotics and weapons to prevent antibiotics from working. Using statistics to decide who dies is radical.
The Empiricist Movement
Looking at evidence is considered a radical political position by half the planet. Organizations trying rational thinking anyway.
Vote!
You're 200x more likely to get injured driving to vote than to affect the election outcome. Democracy is irrational but do it anyway.
GDP and You!
World GDP is $127.8 trillion divided by 7.3 billion people equals $17,500 each. Happiness maxes out at $75k income. Above that you're just buying stuff, not joy. Economics with spreadsheets.
A Utilitarian Party Platform
Political platform asks "what if you tried helping people instead of signaling tribal affiliation?" Uses third-grade math. Revolutionary, apparently.
Wealth Inequality in America
Americans underestimate wealth inequality so badly the perception gap exceeds the actual wealth gap—like thinking your neighbor has 2 cars when they own a dealership.
Drink by Numbers!
Gas chromatography proves Budweiser isn't watered down. Day drinking becomes "data collection" with scientific equipment involved.
The Hedonistic Imperative
Military gets $2 trillion, brain research gets $13 billion. We spend 154x more on bombs than abolishing all suffering forever.
The Wisdom of Crowds
Random farmers guessed an ox's weight within 1 pound. Experts were wrong. Crowds beat geniuses when math says they shouldn't.
cos(b) says,
cos(b) can't be both square and a trigonometric function. Cosby's geometry fails in three dimensions, possibly four.
Fun Facts About Iraq
Iraq War cost $3 trillion, enough to end world hunger for 100 years. We chose to make 4 million Iraqis homeless instead.
How much of our DNA is useless junk?
75% of your DNA is junk that cells photocopy billions of times for absolutely no reason.
What was the population when the United States was established?
2.5 million people created a democracy. You have 335 million who can't agree on anything.
How much time do people spend consuming news?
Americans spend 70 minutes daily consuming news about problems in places they'll never visit.
Every World Statistic You Could Ever Dream Of (In Real Time)!
Watch humanity's vital signs live. See military spending outpace disease research in real time.
Are You Reading this of Your Own Free Will?
Your brain decided 10 seconds before you did. Brain scans prove you're not actually making choices.
Decentralized Institutes of Health
A global research initiative to accelerate medical progress through pragmatic clinical trials.
The International Campaign to End War and Disease
Please take 30 seconds to trade one apocalypse for disease eradication.
Research: 12.3x More Clinical Trial Capacity
$929 pragmatic trials turn $27.2B a year into 23.4M participant slots and a 443-to-36-year treatment timeline.
QuantiModo
Automating clinical research through the open-source dFDA ecosystem. Accelerating the discovery of treatments for 7,000+ diseases through automated data collection, causal inference analysis, and effortless clinical trials. We want everyone to have their own personalized agentic FDAi agent to autonomously discover the positive and negative effects of every food and drug in the world!
The Empirical Deficit that Plagues Modern Psychiatry
Why psychiatry needs more data: comparing the rigorous quantitative methods used in industrial testing to the subjective approaches in mental health treatment.
9 Barriers to the Eradication of Mental Illness and How We Can Overcome Them
9 key barriers to ending mental illness: high treatment costs, lack of research funding, stigma, and more. Learn how data-driven approaches can help solve these challenges.
HIGHER Omega 3 Fatty Acid Intake Predicts LOWER Inflammatory Pain
N=1 study showing higher Omega-3 fatty acid intake predicts lower inflammatory pain (R=-0.504, p<0.001). Fish oil supplementation correlated with reduced inflammation.
HIGHER Gluten Free Pasta with Olive Oil predicts HIGHER Overall Mood
N=1 study showing gluten-free pasta with olive oil predicts higher overall mood (R=0.5, p<0.001). Gluten-free diet correlated with improved emotional wellbeing.
HIGHER Overall Mood predicts LOWER Inflammatory Pain
N=1 study showing higher overall mood predicts lower inflammatory pain (R=-0.343, p=0.001). Inflammatory pain was 13% higher after low mood (3.54/5) vs 9% lower after high mood (4.14/5).
Analytics Engine
QuantiModo Analytics Engine: Machine learning algorithms that analyze health data to discover correlations between treatments, behaviors, and outcomes.
Instantly Aggregate Your Users' Data
Integration is easy with the framework's libraries in Ruby, PHP, Java, Android, iOS, and Windows.
Revolutionizing Social-Science Experimentation
Design your experiment. Run your experiment. Analyze your data. All in one place.
Wishocracy
Compare different areas of human concern and discover what matters most to you through pairwise comparisons.
Wishocracy - Discover Your Global Priorities
Compare different areas of human concern and discover what matters most to you through pairwise comparisons.
Wishonia
Using collective intelligence to maximize median health and happiness.
The Continuous Evidence Generation Protocol: Two-Stage Validation (RWE → Pragmatic Trials)
We present the Predictor Impact Score (PIS), a novel composite metric operationalizing Bradford Hill causality criteria for automated signal detection from aggregated N-of-1 observational studies. Combined with pragmatic trial confirmation (based on evidence from 108+ embedded trials), this two-stage framework would generate validated outcome labels at 44.1x lower cost than traditional Phase III trials. This enables continuous, population-scale pharmacovigilance and precision dosing recommendations.
The Invisible Graveyard: Quantifying the Mortality Cost of FDA Efficacy Lag
After proving a drug is safe, the FDA requires 8.2 years to prove it works before patients can access it. We estimate this delay cost 102 million deaths among people waiting for approved drugs (1962-2024). The human cost in death and disability of blocking good drugs is 3,389 higher than the cost of approving bad ones.
Ubiquitous Pragmatic Trial Impact Analysis: How to Prevent a Year of Death and Suffering for 84 Cents
Only 15 diseases/year get their first treatment each year. With 6,650 diseases lacking effective treatments, the backlog would take 443 years to clear. Integrating pragmatic trials into standard healthcare increases trial capacity 12.3x, cutting that timeline from 443 years to 36 years. The average untreated disease gets a treatment 212 years earlier, saving 10.7 billion deaths at $0.842 per year of healthy life saved.
Drug Development Cost Increase Analysis
Rigorous analysis of the 105x increase in drug development costs from pre-1962 to 2024, using Baily (1972) academic study with CPI adjustments and sensitivity analysis
Patient's Right to Trial Act: Potential Impact of Adoption in All 50 States
A conditional schedule-shift model of state legislation that lets post-Phase-1 treatments finance their own evidence generation and accelerates treatments for global diseases and aging.
Right to Trial & FDA Upgrade Act
A universal right to try, with evidence. The Act authorizes commercial access after initial human safety testing and makes every covered treatment use teach us something.
Is This Crazy?
Integrating pragmatic trials into routine healthcare claims to clear a 443 years treatment backlog at $0.842/DALY. One-page calculation chain for economist review.
Source Quotes and References
Every claim in this manual has a receipt. 347 sources, because 'trust me, I'm an alien' is not a citation format your species recognizes.
Methodology, Parameters, and Calculations
Parameter definitions, formulas, uncertainty ranges, and data sources.
Institute for Accelerated Medicine
Find out which treatments work, and get them to patients faster. Our plan: the Decentralized Framework for Drug Assessment, Right to Trial, and the 1% Treaty.
The Journal of Citizen Science: A Pharmacovigilance Framework for...
A systematic evidence synthesis platform aggregating 10,000+ N-of-1 observational studies to generate quantitative outcome labels. Employs Bradford Hill criteria for causal inference with effect...
The International Campaign to End War and Disease
Please take 30 seconds to trade one apocalypse for disease eradication.
Wishocracy - Discover Your Global Priorities
Compare different areas of human concern and discover what matters most to you through pairwise comparisons.
Research: 12.3x More Clinical Trial Capacity
$929 pragmatic trials, 443.3 -> 36.0 backlog compression, 10.7B lives saved.