[Nasrudith]

There is a punchline to the one child policy and all of the problems and suffering it caused. They could have just encouraged having kids later in life like at 25 instead of ar 18 and reduced it with fae fewer side effects. With exponentials compounding over time, delay is as good as reducing the count and far less invasive - scientests and engineers should have known that! Not a funny punchline but one all the same. But China chose a path of maximum violence and minimal personal choice.

Really the biggest problem with a technocracy is that power corrupts, and that people already refuse to admit when they were wrong because it would be detrimental to themselves. Make the metrics of what is right the key to power, especially with no objective arbiter and you'll see shit pretty much indistinguishable from Lysenkoism. As seen with the Great Leap Forward and its 'immovations' in agriculture, it is a road towards madness, not an accelerated path to progress.

Might makes right and war in general have many, many, many things wrong with them and should not be looked towards as some sort of ideal. But such conflicts forces objective verification of the technologies, tactics, and strategies and force science to be real to succeed. You cannot rely upon Lysenkoism to feed your armies because it is not real. If you insist that bullets cannot harm you because of your breathing techniques even if you convinced others of your bullshit it won't save you from a gun. But conversely if you insist you are protected from bullets by the right ceramics and kevlar even those who sneer at you for "using pottery for armor" if it blocks bullets and absorbs kinetic force it is right and thus "scientific" in a way.