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Einstein said, “You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” Similarly, we won’t improve our country until we improve our level of public debate. On these pages I outline how we can automate conflict resolution and cost-benefit analysis and solve our problems at a level higher than how they were caused.

To start, we will break our problems down into their sub-components, including beliefs, supporting, and weakening evidence, and arguments. This will allow thousands or millions of us to evaluate each part of an argument and evidence one at a time. We will group beliefs by topic and sort them by their positivity, strength, and level of specificity. This will prevent duplication and allow us to focus on one issue at a time. 

The Idea Stock Exchange (ISE) proposes a groundbreaking framework for tackling complex issues, resolving conflicts, and fostering informed decision-making. Here's a detailed breakdown of its key features:

1. Collaborative Conflict Resolution Platform:

• Wiki-inspired: Borrows from Wikipedia's collaborative editing model, facilitating community-driven conflict resolution.
• Evidence-driven: Prioritizes verifiable data and logical reasoning, ensuring well-informed conclusions.
• Dynamic Ranking System: Inspired by Google's PageRank, it evaluates arguments based on the strength of their evidence, dynamically adjusting as new information emerges.

2. Multi-faceted Evaluation Metrics:

• Cost-Benefit Analysis: Assesses proposed solutions by examining potential costs, benefits, likelihoods, and impact.
• Argumentative Strength Assessment: Categorizes arguments based on logical consistency, evidence, relevance, and significance.
• Maslow's Hierarchy Integration: Aligns the evaluation with fundamental human needs for a broader perspective.

3. Sophisticated Scoring and Ranking Protocols:

• Precision Scoring Formula: Combines argument scores with evidence assessments to determine argument validity.
• Evidence-Based Ranking System: Leverages algorithms to rank solutions based on predicted costs and benefits, with dynamic updates based on new information.

4. Uniqueness and Redundancy Scores:

• Equivalency Score: Identifies similar arguments using semantic similarity metrics and machine learning, coupled with community feedback, to reduce redundancy and develop unique scores.
• "Better Ways of Saying the Same Thing": Helps users find alternative expressions of the same idea, enhancing clarity and reducing duplication.

5. Logical Fallacy and Argument Evaluation:

• Fallacy Detection: Implements algorithms to identify and flag potentially fallacious arguments, promoting rational discourse.
• User-Contributed Evidence Assessment: Allows the community to contribute evidence supporting or weakening arguments for collaborative verification.

6. Technological Integration and User Interaction:

• Database Tools: Proposes building tools to map conclusions, assumptions, and their relationships for deeper understanding.
• Interactive Interface: Users can actively participate by submitting evidence, voting on argument strength, and suggesting alternative viewpoints.

7. Promoting Quality Debate:

• Separating Argument Types: Distinguishes between truth, importance, and relevance arguments for a more nuanced debate structure.
• Encouraging Constructive Dialogue: Aims to shift focus from emotional responses to evidence-based reasoning, fostering meaningful discourse over sensationalism.

8. Community-Driven Evolution:

• Open-Source Development: Encourages community involvement in refining and evolving the platform, ensuring its adaptability and relevance.

Additional Considerations:

• Data Quality and Bias: Implementing robust measures to ensure data accuracy and mitigate potential biases in algorithms and user contributions.
• Transparency and Explainability: Providing clear explanations of scoring methods and decision-making processes to build trust and understanding.
• User Engagement and Education: Fostering active participation and educating users on the platform's functionalities and responsible use.

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Thomas Jefferson said we should list pros and cons. Here is my list of reasons to agree and disagree.  Please help me advance the arguments:

+34

• "Competition in Educational opportunities makes traditional public schools better" 

+29. 

• "We should ensure that environmental laws properly account for cost in regulatory process" 

+27

• Students in failing schools should be able to exercise school choice 

+24

• "We should weaken the threat of the Castro regime" 

+21. 

• "We should tighten economic sanctions against Iran" 

+19

• The media is stupid 

+17. 

• "We should weaken the threat of the Chavez regime." 
• "When parents and kids are free to choose their school everyone benefits." 
• "A strong America is good for the planet
• The media does not go into very much depth in their portrait of the issues ~ Me 

+14

• Obama is wrong on immigration. ~ Me
• Religious doctrine has little to do with the kind of politician someone is ~Me

+13. 

• "We should eliminate taxes for taxpayers with AGI below $200,000 on interest, dividends, and capital gains." 
• "We should help threatened Islamic states with micro-credit and banking." 
• Dodd-Frank is bad 
• It may seem like a strange paradox, but those societies that guarantee the least for their poor, often end up giving them the least ~ Me

+12

• Every 12 people should get 1 vote ~Me
• Obama is wrong on the cap and trade auction system 
• We should pay doctors according to how healthy their patents are ~Me

+11. 

• We must not allow Jihadist to replace modern Islamic states with a caliphate 
• We should help threatened Islamic states with public schools  
• It often seems that journalist would rather cause problems, than fix them  
• The media is liberal  

+10. 

• We should focus tax breaks on the middle class ~Me. 
• Debate websites should put reasons to agree and disagree with an idea in different columns 

+9

• We should have a federal home schooling tax credit. 
• Competition in Educational opportunities makes traditional public schools better. 

+8

• Choice is good 
• It often seems that journalist would rather cause problems, than fix them 

+7. 

• We should promote the individual ownership of health insurance.
• We must not allow a nuclear-9-11
• Obama is wrong on foreign policy 
• Republicans should stop being anti-intellect  
• There are a lot of things we should learn from Iraq 

+8. 

• The Clinton Administration tried to dismantle the military.
• The wealthy are doing just fine.

+6. 

• All cultures are not equal.
• We should help threatened Islamic states with the rule of law
• ObamaCare is bad.
• We should lower the corporate tax rate.
• Closing the achievement gap in our schools is the civil rights issue of our time.
• Punditry (debate and commentary) is more important than Activism.  
• Socialism doesn't work 
• Americans are stupid 

+5. 

• American foreign affairs are plagued by bureaucratic inaction.
• We should take Ahmadinejad at his word.
• We should ensure that environmental laws properly account for cost in regulatory process.
• We should maintain current tax rates on personal income.
• We should act to inform public opinion in Latin America.
• We must reaffirm our appreciation of legal immigration.
• Good teachers should be rewarded for their hard work.
• America should shift federal priorities to emphasize issues of Energy security.
• Discussing what is right and wrong may hurt some people's feelings 
• News outlets will have more readers/viewers the uglier our conflicts get
• Some ideas should not be accepted as valid logical beliefs 
• The collapse of the American family should be cause for grave concern 
• The Department of Energy should shift priorities to emphasize Energy security
• We made many mistakes in Iraq 
• We should legalize drugs 

+4. 

• Evil people exist.
• The government should not redistribute wealth.
• People who want to remove consequences are wrong.
• We should isolate Iran diplomatically.
• We should improve our economic ties with Latin America.
• America should not tax middle class savings.
• Communist leaders knew socialism couldn't compete so they advocated killing all capitalist
• Simply giving money to the poor does not work well
• It is not bad to change your position 
• It is not good having all the poor living together 
• Marriage is the best anti-poverty program 
• Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good 
• Obama lied about the platoon story 
• Obama lies 
• Only stupid people would think anything about Paris Hilton is important 
• People should have to pass drug test to get government assistance 
• Teachers should be compensated according to their ability to produce real results, not solely on the number of years they’ve been on the job 
• There are a lot of things to dislike about America 
• The way the government structures its foreign affairs assets is bad 
• To accept everything, equally, is to accept nothing, truly 
• We should encourage mixed use development
• We should reward good behavior 

+3. 

• China misappropriates intellectual property.
• We should try to strengthen human rights in South America.
• We should try to strengthen freedom in South America.
• We should use foreign aid and investments on those who stand alongside us.
• We must secure our border. 
• We must never ignore Latin America.
• Both Gays and Mormons have been discriminated against.
• Imports oil from unstable places threatens our national security 
• It is best to trust individuals to make decisions for their own lives
• It is wrong to lie 
• It was bad that it took until 1920 for the USA to give women the vote 
• No concept man forms is valid unless it is integrated without contradiction into the sum of all knowledge 
• Obama is wrong on Iran
• Raising taxes hurts working people and scares away jobs 
• Reagan wasn’t always pro-choice 
• The constitution of the United States is awesome 
• The fact that Paris Hilton is a billionare, proves that our society is unfair 
• We must never ignore Latin America 

+2. 

• We must constantly challenge bureaucratic group think.
• Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.
• China shouldn't be allowed to subsidize their private businesses.
• Creation of the Directorate of National Intelligence was duplicative.
• Jihadism is this century’s nightmare.
• We should help threatened Islamic states with competitive economic policies
• We should amend Sarbanes-Oxley to relieve mid-size companies from onerous requirements
• We must rebuild relationships of respect, trust, and friendship with Latin America.
• We need to strengthen education in America.
• We should emphasize math and science.
• We should promote charter schools.
• We should improve worker retraining.
• America should encourage legal immigration.
• America should welcome the best and the brightest from around the world to our universities.
• We should lower taxes for everyone.
• The US should implement national tort reform. 
• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
• Barack Obama thinks its cool that he used to use drugs 
• Each state should be able to make its own decision
• Fox news lies when they say we report you decide 
• It is cowardly to attack citizens 
• Jacob Weisberg is an idiot 
• No Child Left Behind has helped stress the role of accountability in improving our schools 
• Obama is wrong on government health care 
• Obama is wrong on the new deal 
• Poverty is nonexistent for those who have children after they are married and graduate from high school 
• Republicans should be as conservative as they can in order to win elections and no more  
• Republicans should be as conservative as they can in order to win elections and no more  
• Socialism removes the reward for hard work 
• Some people deserve to be hated 
• Some things deserve to be hated 
• The end does not justify the means 
• The federal government shouldn't say when life begins 
• The judicial system is vulnerable to government or party interference and pressure 
• Americans are stupid
• We must secure our borders first, and then reform immigration policy 
• We should elect republicans from blue states
• We should isolate those who support the destruction of Israel 

+1. 

• If trade laws are burdensome and antiquated, enterprise will stall.
• We should not assume that Iran will act responsibly when they have the bomb.
• Because environmental sectors are not labor intensive, green jobs never made economic sense.
• Jihadism is similar to fascism and Soviet communism.
• We should help threatened Islamic states with basic health care
• We should help threatened Islamic states with competitive economic policies
• We should promote public-private partnerships in education.
• America should reform our immigration laws.
• America should end illegal immigration.
• America should streamline the system to recruit and retain highly-skilled workers.
• The government should provide regulatory relief.
• We should make the Bush tax cuts permanent.
• We should build and repair transportation infrastructure
• The Federal government must stop its borrowing and spending binge.
• There is a proper role for the federal government to play in Education.
• The federal government should not determine what schools teach or how they are ran.
• We need successful people from business to go into politics.
• America should invest in energy research
• A website can make money by helping users organize reasons to agree
• The ends do not justify the means 
• Even with the estate tax parents can pass billions of dollars onto their children 
• Going negative often doesn't work 
• Harry Truman was right when he said that JFK was too young 
• It is fundamentally unfair to tax people retroactively 
• It is good to be free from bigotry
• It is wrong to tax money twice 
• It sets a bad precedent to allow someone’s religion to be a factor in politics 
• Money for education should not come out of property taxes
• Mixed use development results in less driving 
• Most theological questions are irrelevant to the presidency 
• Obama is bad on pork 
• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper
• Obama is wrong on abortion 
• Obama is wrong on embryonic stem cell research 
• Obama is wrong on private accounts for Social Security 
• Obama is wrong on the economy 
• Obama is wrong on the vouchers 
• Obama wants to reward people for breaking the law 
• Paul Tsongas was a fiscal conservative 
• Paul Tsongas was a good guy  
• Reason is our only salvation 
• Socialism would be nice, if it worked 
• States that meet testing requirements should have flexibility in measuring performance 
• The Chinese communist party will take as much power as they can whatever it takes 
• The Federal government must stop its borrowing and spending binge 
• The federal government should not determine what schools teach or how they are ran
• The free market leads to better quality
• The government should provide regulatory relief
• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper
• The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one
• Mormons are members of a cult
• The people should choose not the courts
• The presidential needs to provide leadership in energy independence
• There are more slaves now than there have been at any other time in history
• Things that are counter-intuitive are not always clever and don't always make good policy
• Thomas Paine supported the estate tax
• To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile 
• We should increase the size of our military by 100000 troups 

+0. 

• Jihadist are the only people who would use a nuclear weapon.
• God will not require us to do evil, to defeat evil.
• Income inequality is a problem.
• Protectionism is sometimes necessary in trade 
•  The Death Tax Is Fundamentally Unfair 
• The Death Tax unfairly impacts families, farmers, ranchers and small businesses 
• The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter 
• You destine people to a life of mediocrity when you convince them that they cannot control themselves. 
• You shouldn't treat others how you want to be treated, you should treat them the way they would like to be treated 

-1

• An ID system for guest workers would cost too much 
• Equality of income opportunity is a problem in the USA 
• Mormons are typically pro life 
• Obama is naïve
• One party systems are bad 
• Power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts ultimately 
• Young people are drawn to socialism because they are idealistic 
• The estate tax breaks the bonds between generations 
• The individual mandate opens the door to widespread regulation of health care 
• The people's republic of China would have rather killed 200–300 students than give up any control 
• There are more slaves now than there have been at any other time in history 
• The way we treat illegal immigrants is the way they treated Anne Frank

-2

• An eye for an eye would leave us all blind and toothless
• Mormons are members of a cult
• The Mormons religion is a cult, and we should not have a member of a cult be the president 
• God will not require us to do evil, to defeat evil
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-4

• Americans trying to defeat radical and violent factions of Islam will only backfire

-9

•  People shouldn't support Mitt because he is Mormon

-21

• It is good to be liberal

-3 

• Presidents should release their school work. 
• Presidents should release their grades grades 
• "America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home." - Governor Mitt Romney, UPI, February 26, 2005 
• We should select candidates that help change negative stereotypes about republicans 
• We should select candidates that know more about the economy than any other candidate. 
• Teacher's unions are not always right, and we should select governors who are capable of standing up to them.    
• We should select presidential candidates who can  help international relations.    

We are a political party that organizes all the ideas and arguments by subject, and lets them battle in a survival of the fittest death-match.

We are a political party that supports candidates that promises to make their decisions based on online cost benefit and idea evaluation algorithms. They just have to use a forum that ties the strength of their conclusion to the strength of their assumption, so that when you strengthen or weaken an assumption you also strengthen or weaken conclusions based on the assumption.

We have had the technological ability to create a world based on logic for too long. It is about time we build a rational political party based on the assumption that we support plans, conclusions, activities, and policies that can gather evidence based support, and that we don't do things that don't stand up to analysis. 

We will conduct open, online, cost/benefit analysis of each issue. It is about time.

Welcome to the website for the best political party of all time, and the future of reason based decisions making. 

"No concept you form is valid unless you integrate it without contradiction into the sum of human knowledge."

~Michael E. Laub