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Not all answers are dichotomous

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Payoff table for modified Schelling Game, for more subjective judgement, when decision can’t be made, and the jury can ask for further evidence. Reference Decentralised Jury: https://kleros.io/assets/whitepaper.pdf Or Something like this, that incentivizes participation even if the answer to the question is subjective.

Citizenship Amendment Act: Why you need religion as a label to define and identify cruelty?

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Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 is providing a path to Indian citizenships to persecuted Hindu refugees. As a secular country, how it matters, one is Hindu, Muslim or any other religion. Can't we coin the draft something like this: Anyone who is prosecuted based on religion and has spent a minimum of 5 years in India can apply for citizenship. You can get your citizenship after the evaluation of the authenticity of your appeal. It's a suggestion, and can also be further improved. Policies are the mental models, it gives the guidance of how we think and operate, it should be precise and unambiguous without room for confusion, and should give an objective truth that doesn't change with time. Allowing citizenship based on religion generates wrong mental models, and creates uncertainty for other religions. The first principle is don't allow cruelty, it doesn't matter whether you are Muslim or Hindu. Now, Hindus are being prosecuted by some Muslim countries, you never kn

Why scientists will join the democracy app?

Details of Fair democracy: https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/from-hypocrisy-to-democracy-this-way-delegated-proof-of-stake-2/ Why will experts join the democracy network in the beginning? What are the Incentives?? 1) Professional Reputation Provide problems documentation of departments with evidence Provide solutions documentation of the departments with evidence Provide criticisms and solutions to the policies of departments Market the solutions in social media Even though its a replacement of present democracy, for now, it will be used to keep the present govt accountable if they are doing something wrong. Documentation will go through peer review, all the participants of the department can review it, with scientific professionalism. It's not like social media, you have to use every sound logic with providing references to your arguments. 2) Crowdfunding Department scientists and voters can crowdfund their solutions and gain incentives for solving problems through

All most all general knowledge books and questions are about parroting

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Books lack the depth, inquiry, reasoning and critical thinking, it is just about memorising names of persons and places, and dates through parroting the quizzes and questions. Students given to memorise names of famous artists Take for example: Book asks to name the national parks of India. What's the point in memorizing names of different national parks, if you don't know anything about ecology; if you can't see and feel the environment and lifestyle of exotic and endangered wildlife in that national park? In many entrances including B.Ed, GK in one of the subjects, and students end up parroting the names. It also takes a huge chunk of time in schools, what if it were used for more meaningful learning. Do the content help in transfer of learning? How questions and content needs to be designed? https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/question-designing-should-be-brain-friendly-cue-based/ Features of great book: https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/all