About
Ever since he was a young child, Gy's career path was 'inventor of things'. Right out of high school, this took the form of software engineering, eventually graduating with a degree in computer science, and starting a career in backend web development. But many ideas don't quite like being trapped in a sea of code. Reflecting on his love for reading, Gy started going back to college, this time to study creative writing.
One of Gy's skills that lend themselves well to the disciplines of software engineering is figuring out where rules start breaking down. His favorite topic to write about is the intersection of philosophy and government; his essays tend to focus more on analysis, while his fiction explores the edge cases of those two subjects.
Fun facts
- Gy found it very awkward to write his own bio in third person.
- And now that there are two items in this list, he doesn't have to go back and replace "fun facts" (plural) to "fun fact" (singular), saving a lot of time compared to writing this poorly executed joke.
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The Wastelands [Working Title]
Rules and intuition tend to break down at the extremes of ideas. What would a world where every aspect of everyone's life is optimized for the greater good look like? What would a world where the notion of freedom is taken so far there is no government look like? And what if the defectors of each world met each other, and set out to create a perfect government, learning from the mistakes of their respective worlds? Will there be a stable middle ground, or are all political systems doomed to gravitate to the extremes?
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Locke's Treatises of Government are more entertaining that you'd expect, and I very much recommend giving them a read. e.g. "If he has...given any other proofs of Adam’s royal authority, other than by often repeating it, which, among some men, goes for argument"
If the government were run by a single elected person, that would be an elected dictatorship. Does moving from one to two people make it a republic or elected oligarchy? Is there a fixed number of representatives that makes a republic a republic?
Is there an optimal balance between freedom and order? Technically if no one can do anything, there would be no crime...but people would also have no freedom. But if anyone could do anything without repercussion, well, I wouldn't want to live in that world either.