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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

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.

mkl 6y ago
> - 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 6y ago
  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_base_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 6y ago
seximal ftw
- EvanWard97 6y ago
  I haven't looked into it much, but it looks at least better than base 10.
gxon 6y ago
Why not the 13 month calendar? e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar 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 6y ago
  OMG. There's a dedicated calendar wiki, https://calendars.wikia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://calendars.wikia.org/wiki/Main_Page I don't know why I'm surprised, but this brightened by day!

mkl 6y ago

> - 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 6y ago
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_base_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 6y ago

seximal ftw

EvanWard97 6y ago
I haven't looked into it much, but it looks at least better than base 10.

gxon 6y ago

Why not the 13 month calendar? e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar 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 6y ago
OMG. There's a dedicated calendar wiki, https://calendars.wikia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://calendars.wikia.org/wiki/Main_Page I don't know why I'm surprised, but this brightened by day!