One-key rule

Back in 2009 I noticed something.

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Polistra’s Law of Political Math: For each important question, only one mathematical operation is permissible.

When I was an electronic tech at Penn State in the ’80s, I learned this important bit of wisdom from Prof Davis, a pollution researcher. Davis had developed an effective and inexpensive method to remove airborne sulfur dioxide, which has always been a coal-country problem and thus a PSU specialty. After thorough testing he offered the method to EPA for large-scale use. EPA refused his invention, because the method required spreading (aerosolizing) an absorptive powder. They explained that the public wanted to see only subtraction in a pollution-removal process; EPA knew it couldn’t justify adding something to the air even if the air would be perfectly clean after the powder dropped to the ground.

This rule applies in every realm. For education funding, the only key you can hit is the plus key. For taxes, only the minus key. Protection for Chinese industry: Add. Protection for American industry: Subtract. For military weapons, only plus. For personal weapons, only minus. Democracy abroad, only add. Personal freedom here, only subtract.

As with any rule, there are occasional exceptions, and the rarity and salience of the exceptions proves the generality of the rule.

Today a couple of interesting exceptions showed in the news. (1) Obama is reducing our missile-interceptor weapons in Europe, stirring up a predictable firestorm. This is a good move because the original Cold War purpose of the weapons is gone, and the “Persian threat” is imaginary. (2) Amtrak has started to allow personal weapons to be carried on trains. This won’t make any real difference because the allowance is only in checked luggage; it won’t help to prevent any mass murders. Still, it does run against the one-key rule.

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The rule still holds. At the start of the 2020 NAZI TORTURE CAMP, I realized that the demons were making people sick by SUBTRACTING everything that helps immunity. Work, confidence, sunlight, social contact, sleep, good diet, and BREATHING.

The demons led us to believe that we were sickened by ADDING a horrible new unprecedented virus, thus distracting our attention from the massive chronic SUBTRACTION of everything that makes life possible. Like BREATHING for fucking example.

Now ‘independents’, under the careful guidance of Gaia Overlord RFK, have focused strictly on one very small ADDITION. They contend that a couple shots of an inefficient vaccine are causing lots of people to die early. They refuse to consider that 3 years of CONSTANT TOTAL SUBTRACTION could have a larger effect on people than two small doses of a chemical.

The one-key trick also applies to AI. The worriers want us to worry about what AI adds to the world, which is really just a jumbled-up repetition of what people have already added. This takes our focus away from what AI subtracts, which is intellectual property. Robin Hood steals your gold and gives you a picture of a ring. Ah, how generous he is!