[walleeee]

these policies are a product of pathological incentives as well as emotional decision making - there are scientists and engineers building free, open source tools to do exactly as you propose, but more of them are building things attention seekers can use to grease (g)ears for cash or clout, and the systems making this possible are fusing with or already indistinguishable from evolving models of governance

millions of people and machines are busy quantifying, prioritizing and verifying - where these efforts don't actively perpetuate flagrantly bad policy, they are too often inadequately coordinated to prevent it

it's not only our brains that are poorly equipped to optimize for long term human wellbeing but our social technologies - luckily we have more choice in the latter, we ought to exercise it