mleku on Nostr: yeah, i'm working on it. part of it is a methodology though, and that's not a book, ...

yeah, i'm working on it. part of it is a methodology though, and that's not a book, that is a bundle of publicly available data, tools to fetch and verify it, and the code that analyses the data. the conclusion comes mechanically from the data plus the heuristics and pattern matching requirements of the analysis. the burden of proof then becomes on the critic instead of the one doing the research. and then pile on top of that a few dozen regional studies of the same data sets and epidemiology and whatnot.

my goal is to create a full system of models for understanding governance and the failure modes, and all of the mitigations that have been observed in action in the real world, to understand how one pushes and on what one pushes to get the most effective change, with the least effort.

one of the things you have to remember is that the legitimacy of a governance system is its whole currency. when you have empirical facts measured in a dozen separate cases across the world that show that the one you have in front of you is failure prone, this changes the cost of getting it changed. and you don't have to work within the system to get the change to happen. that whole thing precisely itself is how it manages to stay broken. no, you just show it to a few people, and once a few of them have mind blown moments it runs by itself.