Viability is an interesting way to look at the issue, but I think we need to acknowledge that there is no question that life begins at conception, but we have to be careful, because a culture considered Great, the Ancient Greeks, practiced infanticide. Many of us want to live in white liberal areas where women have the right to do what they want with their bodies, but a culture that does not recognize co-ownership of the fetus by the male may be outcompeted by ones that do unless it has a monopoly on power.
I think the punishment should be ten years plus a percentage of a murder sentence corresponding to the stage of development of the fetus. I am still deciding whether I might support emergency contraception pills if there is a sound moral argument, such as based on method of administration.
A nation that respects teleology, the study of the true purposes of things, will do well. The teleological function of marriage is to prevent social problems associated with children of single mothers. Its function is inherently related to heterosexual reproduction, although not every marriage fulfills its teleological function. I support a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Perhaps a secondary teleological function is to provide for widowed women. Perhaps we should allow gay marriage for women on Social Security.
Climate change is happening and it is caused by humans. There has been some warming already. I’ve struggled with whether God will save believers from climate change without them stopping fossil fuel usage. I think if you believe in the fossil record, which I do, you have to believe that we could go extinct if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels.
Thankfully, most of Earth will still be inhabitable under any conceivable emissions scenario thanks to peak oil, and people like to live in warm areas.
But just in case we try to burn all the fossil fuels, I support an immediate carbon tax to achieve as little warming as possible.
Impose a virtual moratorium on new immigration similar to previous times in our history and continue deporting as many illegal immigrants as possible.
I would appoint only originalist justices to the Supreme Court so law is not made by the judiciary and we have to explicitly change the law if we want it changed.
This is the only sane position, in my opinion. At the very least, the children of people who fundamentally do not respect our laws by being an illegal immigrant should not be citizens by birth.
The number of majority Hispanic counties along our southern border, and in California a little further north, has increased substantially in the past decades. I myself may descend from a Spanish immigrant to New Netherland named Gonsalus, but he was almost certainly White.
I support ceding a contiguous area from majority Hispanic counties to Mexico, except Florida, in return for accepting relocation of non-White Hispanics living in the rest of the country, most likely with monetary compensation or possibly agreement of those involved. I believe we should not create a regressive caste society involving Mexicans.
Most people believe America needs to continue to atone for its historic injustice of chattel slavery of blacks. I’ve struggled with the assumed loss of status after an African-American President as a member of the oldest White family in the U.S. who occasionally thought that they chose the Presidents by virtue of them being all White.
I support creating an autonomous region or a new state from 40% or higher African-American counties or a larger area of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia where the president or governor is required to be African-American and African-Americans receive other benefits, such as a tax credit, and a substantial one-time reparation credit tied to income for African-Americans in other counties willing to move there.
It is time to make English the national language, while acknowledging colonial populations that spoke German, French, and Spanish that persist in small numbers to the current day without recognizing them as official minority languages.
The risk of being executed for a false conviction outweighs any argument for the death penalty. Since I believe in “an eye for an eye,” my position on this may evolve, but unfortunately I believe courts can be fallible, so it may be better to let convicted murderers face life in prison than allow innocent people who are falsely convicted to be executed. If there is a way to ensure that there are no false convictions, which might be possible using formal logical proof technology, which you never know if the courts already use behind the scenes, and more stringent evaluations of witnesses, then we could reinstate the death penalty.
It is clear that cannabis should not be Schedule III, it should be Schedule II. The drug creates some level of dependence and there are some harms associated with it, such as an increased prevalence of schizophrenia, but for some people it’s the only way to deal with chronic pain, so it should be able to be prescribed with restrictions.
I’ve recently seen material that refers to those with partial White ancestry as White in context. I believe any form of this needs to be banned including publications by private citizens. There is no reason we shouldn’t enact recognition of Whiteness as a complete White genome, which is the truth: the genes are recessive and must all be present to be considered White.
I support a constitutional amendment to ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. We need to preserve the original principles of Federalism that our nation was founded upon. A national popular vote would make TV ads in major media markets the deciding fact of elections, which I don’t think would be good.
Cryptocurrency is a valuable technology that helps preserve privacy in the digital age. We should allow citizens to pay taxes and fees in Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Provide tax credits to organizations willing to receive funds with contractual obligations in Ethereum, a cryptocurrency with smart contracts in a Turing-complete language. I have to work out the technical details of exactly what this would mean.
In addition, I believe we can solve the age-old problem of capitalism vs. communism by figuring out how to create smart contracts with more than two parties and then creating a program where members of any corporation can opt in to a collusion-resistant iterated giving algorithm as the means of determining compensation, though we have to be careful about unintentionally disrupting shareholder capitalism, which has been shown to work very well. We would have to introduce cryptocurrency education in a substantial way.
Develop a metric for descendants of local, state, and national elected officials to show their cumulative person-years governed shares based on the level of office held by an ancestor or ancestors, the number of living descendants of the ancestor, and the number of people who lived in a jurisdiction since the ancestor served. It should decrease sharply with deviations from the paternal line. Develop a service with badges that can be used on individuals’ websites that shows the total shares and the individual jurisdiction shares.
Develop a similar service for military descendants and figure out how to get major websites to let users display these badges.
It’s hard to believe how much AI has transformed the economy. I have a degree in computer science and closely followed the technological developments until around 2024 without using any of it directly. AI control theory is one of the most important fields in existence and I believe the President should be a relative expert in it.
We should consider nationalizing AI or instituting strict reporting requirements and inspections for any organization developing AI. These AIs are basically human-level, although some experts say artificial general intelligence is still not here yet. If established AI control theory says distributing human-level AI source code is not safe, we should ban open source AIs.
A lot of the technology industry has been changed by AIs that can write code essentially as well as a human, or AI assistants. We need to have a conversation about whether some jobs, like software engineering, are worth preserving even though they could be automated, and who gets to know about it. Some of the code these AIs write is not necessarily as elegant or as fast as code written by expert software engineers, although of course if they’re human-level then it wouldn’t be the case.
We should probably maintain a national open source AI licensed under my proposed software license alternative to banning human-level AI and let it run the government.
America, I feel like I am putting out a basic position on AI just to satisfy the category of AI control expert in case I am being tested or in a virtual reality, but I have read a lot of the literature and I am the most qualified candidate in this area.
Create a national Linux distribution based on my prior efforts.
I recently remembered that I discovered vaccines cause autism when I was six and saw a definitive study on it that had recently come out straight from a research journal. I sent the news to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but I admit I could have done a better job at keeping the research secret. I believe the government should compensate parents of autistic children an amount that they deserve for the extra effort they have to expend with their autistic child, since we can assume virtually all cases of autism are due to vaccines. Parents should not be expected to shoulder a huge burden with no compensation if their child develops autism by chance because of the need for herd immunity. I am not sure if Asperger’s syndrome should be included, since it can be very high-functioning. Maybe this is because my stepmom tried to get me classified as Asperger’s. I don’t have it, sorry.
We can afford this if we cut spending in other areas.
I’m an avid free software user myself and have released a few libraries that a few people used. We should provide tax credits to organizations that use free software in order to help get the software to a higher quality, and require organizations that receive federal funding to use open formats for all work that is published, if this isn’t already done.
The Rust programming language, which offers memory-safety and other safety features while maintaining performance within a factor of 2 of C, was created after I suggested some aspects of it, although it would take me a while to learn it. Python programming language is another memory-safe language.
New development by organizations receiving federal funding should be in memory-safe languages to avoid hackers ruining your day.
We must mend relations with Canada, since population will shift somewhat north as warming kicks in and we should avoid taking their land by force.
I haven’t been following it closely, but I think the Affordable Care Act is clearly not a valid exercise of the taxation power of Congress, so it should have been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, so the best thing would be to enact a constitutional amendment outlawing it, but if that’s too difficult, we can repeal it legislatively. Many people think single-payer health care is the eventual outcome for the United States, but there is some evidence that countries with single-payer have terrible waiting lists and other problems. While it’s tempting to make health care a right, I think it is not a natural right and in a free market system we have to accept that some people will be subject to catch-all care like emergency rooms, which are required to treat people regardless of ability to pay, but the patient ends up with a bill that can go through the normal process of debt.