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I don't know much about politics or even the futurist party, but I'll get the ball rolling:

• The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Brilliant overview of what logic and reason against and how to be on the right side.
• Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. The most pop of pop sci books, nevertheless it's a fascinating read and one of the most comprehensive overviews of the triumphs of science.
• Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. Get a sense of the direction history is moving and what trends have the possibility of making it better or worse.
• From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp. A framework for how some of the most amazing movements in history have operated.
• The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant. What is the futurist party if not the age old cry of the philosophers for the state to be run by those with the most wisdom rather than the most ambition or greed. A lot of ideas you may have, and elegant criticisms of them, have already been discussed for thousands of years. You'll have to overlook Durants laughably archaic eurocentrism and romantic view of the middle ages, but this truly is a great place to get started, though of course afterward you should go into the primary sources.
• Essays of Francis Bacon
• Essays of Montaigne
• Essays of Voltaire
• Essays of Thomas Paine
• Essays and novels of George Orwell

And a lot of biographies I imagine.

We have a Google Drive, would you mind putting the wiki there so we can all collaborate?

There's a folder for grant leads in the google drive... maybe we could add a folder for funding leads? Not sure... let me know your thoughts.

Here are a few I can think of:

Technology Entrepreneurship- From 0 to 1 by Peter Theil- More of a "how to" book for would be technology entrepreneurs, it would be helpful for any would be politician to know how to actually support small businesses instead of just saying you support small businesses.

Promoting innovation-Innovator's Dilemma by Claton M. Christensen. This book has the great job of saying "how do you get an old dog to do new tricks?" in terms of older companies trying to do innovative things. Strategic incentives to help business innovate could push technology development in the right direction.

Science- The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku. This is a rather fascinating discussion of understanding the human brain, developing Brain Machine Interfaces, and developing synthetic platforms for the human mind to run on. Michio does a good job of keeping the reader engaged as well.

Economics/Finance-The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. While as the title suggests, this is a book about investing, it is essentially a textbook for understanding various forms of investments and could be used as a foundation when discussion Fiscal Policy.

I just wrote this piece as what I consider to be a very solid argument for UBI, with plenty of details. If you would like to learn more, please read it.

I also suggest this article as another good starting point.

The giving to everyone part is an important part to fully understand. Attempting to "improve" it, by limiting it to only poor people, detracts from what it is capable of doing with true universality.

A possible foot in the door approach could be an expansion of EITC to better cover individuals, and better yet, those not working.

For an upper level Sociology course, I had to read a rather long but well written topic on this question. The author is very much for life extension, but brings the entire argument to life. Here is the link to a pdf version. I hope it helps. :)

Some key things you need to keep in mind is how is life going to be extended? How are the cultural norms of society going to be impacted? Where would you draw the lines of generations if people live to be 200 or more? There is much to really think about with this topic and the answers have to do with your views on social and medical ethics really as well as the importance of death to people.

I almost forgot, but we have quite a few proposals in our Google drive!

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_QjQVHuhQG0QndnRy0xUk1iZDA&usp=sharing&tid=0B_QjQVHuhQG0cUFqTDlaM3N6T1E

I'm not sure what process we'll use to go about deciding on which one to use, in my opinion I think the placeholder one in the header will work while focus on growing, and then later perhaps we could run a community wide vote/proposal event. Something we'll have to discuss here on reddit!

Yep, it's pretty cool.

This article is actually about last year's budget. Here's a breakdown of what NASA requested, what the house and senate each agreed on separately, then what the final agreement was. Fortunately, congress elected not to fuck over the commercial crew program. But notice what else they did? Extra $650 million for the fucking SLS. Beyond what NASA requested for it.

Meanwhile, they're cutting relatively tiny amounts from other programs, like earth science ($26.3m cut) and exploration R&D, ($49.2m cut) and just barely not cutting commercial crew, despite both houses separately wanting to.

This kind of horseshit is what's hobbling NASA.

> Wages and prices signal supply and demand for goods

So is that exactly why Apple products are so pricey, even though they've enjoyed a high demand in the last few years? Also is this the reason why they pay peanuts the workers at Foxconn in China [http://www.cnet.com/news/riots-suicides-and-other-issues-in-foxconns-iphone-factories/] that produce those products causing so many of them to commit suicide? [http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/05/us-china-foxconn-death-idUSTRE6A41M920101105], Let's be serious for a moment there.

> I also dislike direct democracy because the notion that the majority is always right is antithetical to the protection of rights and freedoms.

Not sure if you're a troll, but you seem to be contradicting yourself there.

> How is insisting that something that has been tried multiple times and failed COULD work scientific in any way?

I'll close the eye on the statements you've made that have no sources or citations, and ask you why do you think that NLRBE has everything to do with socialism or communism or with any of Marx's ideologies?

> But you know what's happened in practice.

As we tried to explain to you countless of times, it hasn't happened.

> I was actually a communist as a teenager

I wonder why do I remember hearing this somewhere else...

> I realized that it was futile and power would almost always concentrate among a cabal of powerful people when the government was given such unchecked authority.

Just to make sure: you know what horizontal hierarchy means, right?

I'd recommend you keep thinking about it, write it down in a well-structured document (goals, tools, necessities, requirements) and then maybe pass it on to someone you know that wants to help you program this or look into programming it yourself :) if you want to start programming, the Django Framework is pretty good although you'd be better off starting slowly, maybe with some online courses.

I'm unfamiliar with online schedule coordination interfaces. Doodle was the first Google result, so I created a poll for the next ~ two weeks.

The problem is you have to pick specific times for people to choose from, so I just did 17h30, 19h, & 20h for each day.

If anyone else is curious, I did some googling. It seems Blake Masters wrote this phrase on top of the notes he took that were the starting point for the book Zero to One. That's probably where the attribution to Peter Thiel comes from. The quote does seem to actually come from this game though. I'd link my sources but I'm on mobile.

The quote itself is a departure from Peter's style, so it doesn't surprise me. I haven't heard Peter talking about extinction, and he doesn't use the stylistic pattern we see in the quote. A futuristic horror game? That sounds exactly right.

In reading an excellent thesis on Mind Uploading (https://www.amazon.com/Taxonomy-Metaphysics-Mind-Uploading-Keith-Wiley/dp/0692279849/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501597553&sr=1-1&keywords=mind+uploading), there was an attempt to streamline arguments for and against the possibilities of mind uploading and full brain emulation. The concept that stuck out to me, and that creates a solid counterargument to the one presented in this article, is the idea of a future procedure wherein nanobots are deployed your brain, and bit by bit, replace the original biological structure with a synthetic structure immune to breakdown/degeneration. This cuts out the need for two brains to be existing at the same time/one after the other.

I know a book that can. Easy read of information everyone should know. As POTUS, Bernie would appoint Robert Reich as an economic advisor, if I remember correctly.

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Outrage-Expanded-Edition-democracy/dp/0345804376