Hypothesis: Conservatives will refuse to believe contradicting facts regardless of punishment.
Experiment: Use increasingly painful stimulus for negative reinforcement when subjects espouse harmful views, ie racism.
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Hypothetically. I'd see if I could take someone and bring them into a Truman show world without them knowing.
Separate a child from society. Like place them into a void with no human culture. And see what they think later on.
Throwing somebody straight into lava in a volcano. Would be interesting to see what happens.
Leidenfrost probably
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Recreate the setup of Training Day and see how many people become dirty cops because they get finessed by Denzel Washington
I want to see what happens we just have mob lynchings of politicians if their approval drops to below 50%.
Maybe the world would become a utopia?
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Tbh I don't think anything would really get done. Politicians would just recycle the same super popular ideas to prevent themselves from getting lynched.
It'd be like how video games companies are just churning out safe titles they know will sell really well, but with our government instead of video games.
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gather massive amounts of stats on the ideal amount of physical punishment to mete out to children to produce the best results in adults.
Remove every unhealthy person and/or gene modify existing ones to eliminate every allergy orbodily defect caused by gene defect.
Also gene modify so that theres no mental detorioration and humans die just because they are old and the nody can't keep up with maintenance.
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Nice try, Mengele