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by js8 3780 days ago
> What humanity needs is to put politics (and political science, for that matter) on scientific foundation.

There is a big problem, how do you do that? I thought about it recently on another forum - every scientific statement has a form of implication: If you do A, you will get B. So there is no beginning of it. You may say, I start from some axiom system, but then you have to agree on that. Even in classical propositional logic, even if you consider the same resulting formal system, you can get large (infinite?) variety of axiomatic systems that can lead to it.

So, what I would like to see, would be - equip everybody with Watson and let them vote, direct democracy style.