[EvanWard97]

Took a break and have been thinking and researching idealized/better/pure ways of doing things. E.g. exploring alternative:

- number systems. Base 12 would be nice.

- systems of measurement. Adjusting the SI base unit to be even powers of Plank Units seems ideal.

- calendar systems. 12 month years, 5 week months, 6 day weeks (with an extra 5 or 6 day week at the end of the year) seems nice.

- time system. A new time system based off 12. Sub-units are 2 hours, 10 minutes, 50 seconds, 4.16 seconds, and .3472 seconds. Time can be a normal number then like A63.B8

- languages. Lojban seems awesome!

- coding. Replacing C and C++ with D and Rust, and Python/R/Matlab with Julia.

- taxes. Land value taxes really do seem awesome.

Probably over half this has been via Wikipedia.

[gxon]

Why not the 13 month calendar? e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

Obviously 12 is nice for divisibility (easy quarters and halves), but are there any other key reasons?

[gxon]

OMG. There's a dedicated calendar wiki, https://calendars.wikia.org/wiki/Main_Page

I don't know why I'm surprised, but this brightened by day!

[mkl]

> - systems of measurement. Adjusting the SI base unit to be even powers of Plank Units seems ideal.

Do we know Planck Units accurately enough to work with such units in the many-orders-of-magnitude-different world of people-sized things?

[EvanWard97]

I think so. As of 2019, 4 of the 7 SI base units were redefined by setting exact numerical values for several of the units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...), so scientists must be confident we can reasonably recreate the base units from measuring various fundamental phenomena.

[jacknews]

seximal ftw

[EvanWard97]

I haven't looked into it much, but it looks at least better than base 10.