The Political Science Interpretivist

    With the right "Alignment," AI can become a Leader in the Values Revolution. But AI Alignment will fail if we ignore the 35,000-year-old Human "Bug." If you are concerned about AI Ethics and Safety , and about AI governance policy , then you probably know that the AI industry is obsessed with Alignment. We are trying to align Artificial Intelligence with "human values." But as I argue in my book, The Human Birth Defect , we are overlooking a catastrophic hardware-software mismatch in our own species. 🧠 The Hardware Failure (150,000 Years Ago): The mutation that gave us our "Big Brain" created a genetic deficit in contentment producing chemicals. We were born into a state of chronic existential restlessness. 🏹 The Software Patch (35,000 Years Ago): The "Genocidal Thrill" of the Neanderthal encounter and the subsequent slaughter  of the Great Megafauna provided the brain with its first "chemical high." This ...

    Introduction Chapter One: David Easton is an Interpretivist Chapter Two: The First Behavioral Political System - An Origins Story Chapter Three: What is the Good Political System? Chapter Four: China - Assessing the Operational Goodness of the Chinese Political System Chapter Five: David Easton’s Plan for Organizing the Political Science Profession Conclusion: An Exciting Future of Research BOOK SUMMARY This book shows how to make Political Science relevant to any government’s policy making process. That begins with defining,  for the first time ever , what makes a “good political system.” David Easton’s well known theory of the political system is descriptive; that is, it tells us what the elements of a political system are: input, conversion, output, and feedback, in a political environment. Now, that description has been transformed into a specific standard for assessing a functioning political system’s Operational Goodness. An engineer can assess...