What's up with the Parrots?

And why is there a key in its beak?

by the Editors

Parrots can talk but they don't really understand what they're saying.

Political parrots are similar, they get rewarded for squaking the same thing over and over and over again, and they're not necessarily your friend (and they can bite). 

PolicyKeys™ is a role-playing game—we hope Key Players (like you), will like scanning, sorting, and searching through the positive and negative keys. It’s way better to be a wonk than a parrot.

PolicyKeys™ Where Can We Agree^®, Birds of a Feather artificial intelligence is based on the following ground truth, “There’s a time to save and a time to spend, there’s a time for freedom and a time for laws, where can we agree?”

Until really learning about a particular topic and making up their own minds, most people have a knee-jerk bias for one of the Political DNA Base pairs, Abundance/Governance AG (National Government and NGOs), Abundance/Commerce AC (Big Tech and New Businesses), Thrift/Governance TG (Local Governments and Consumers), and Thrift/Commerce TC (Established Supply Chains and Jobs). Most people also have a general preference for either change or status quo. Every political parrot has a key they don’t want you find—because it ruins their argument. It’s up to us wonks to snatch away those ACGT keys

Our full gameboard is a double-tall chessboard, you can see it in the POL-ICYMI Last Week’s Answers, 128 roles painstakingly sorted evenly across all four-sides of the table and a spectrum of bias for change to status quo. Every role’s Yes or No vote counts the same. Each set of eight roles are their opposites on the gameboard, a set of rivals. The differences get less easy to spot and the sets a bit more difficult—the deeper you get into each week’s puzzle.

The game’s been designed to be a smoothie of crosswords (short clues), trivia (overall knowledge), role playing (empathy), mystery (solve the role’s motivation), poker (find each role’s tell), chess puzzles (best answers are so cool), jigsaw puzzles (how the roles fit together), and word games (sometimes there's no choice remaining but to guess).

Perhaps PolicyKeys™ will help depolarize your friends, family, town, county, country, and planet. And, maybe, just maybe, you and your crazy relative will find something to agree on. PolicyKeys™ can depolarize politics—with your help.

 

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You can play this week’s game at PolicyKeys.com

Congress’ approval rating is 21%, the Supreme Court’s is 40%, the media 27%, the average score of the policies on the PolicyKeys™ National Idea Leaderboard is 73%—Politics 4.0 is already a 2x to 3x better model of US political sentiment and direction than Politics (as usual) 3.0.

A new PolicyKeys™ Where Can We Agree? Puzzle every Monday at 6am Eastern at PolicyKeys.com. You can read more about PolicyKeys™ Where Can We Agree? in Politics 4.0 How Gamification, AI, and National Idea Leaderboards Can Help You Depolarize the World. The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has recognized PolicyKeys™ for its innovative approach to consensus building.

Finding out where we can agree takes guts ::

PolicyKeys™ Mission, Vision, Values & Four Laws of Public Policy Formation

based on the theory & methodology of Politics 4.0

Mission:
To forecast and measure nonpartisanship

Vision:
To narrate, rate, create, and curate public policy solutions on leaderboards

Values (#1*)
To be neutral to public and/or private sector solutions

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Purpose
To score and rank public policy solutions with a nonpartisan rating

Goal
To have an AI that can pre-rate all public policy solutions

Strategy
To first find the best solutions that solve 80% of the problem in the shortest time

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*Our Values

#1 We are neutral to public and/or private sector solutions
Passing a new law or trashing an old one is all the same to us.

#2 Talk public policy not public figures
No President Tyler this or President Buchanan that, you can find that on social media.

#3 We’re all on the same team
Good Key “Yes” reasons and good Key “No” reasons help make the puzzles believable and the scoring trustworthy. No ever-so-clever cherry-picking.

#4 Participate in policy huddles
Introverts should strive to share, and Extroverts should strive for restraint.

#5 EMIT helps find the signal in the noise
Consider the Four Key Reason Types: Emotions, Momentum, Interest, and Timespan, by referring to the Four Laws of Public Policy Formation.

#6  We’ll eventually score all solutions
But for now, score the solutions with the highest probable rank. When the AI is fully functional it will help by auto pre-scoring solutions. Each puzzle deserves respect.

#7  When in doubt about calling a role for or against—research the role
E.g. Part-time workers are 2/3rds under 25 and over 50, and 2/3 female. Does that help clarify the call? Is there existing polling data?

#8 Noisy Guests are interesting
When a role is difficult to call, we call those noisy guests, and working carefully through the EMIT model will usually yield a clear call. And the AI is a good second reliability filter.

#9 Each country's gameboard is a working model
While we seek continuous improvement, our gameboards need to be standardized like electrical sockets to be useful. We’ll review suggested improvements once a year, but only modify significant and substantive changes in roles. Keeping level playing fields is paramount.

#10 Compare forecasts to realities
Through polling, commentary, competing forecasts, mean reversion, wisdom of the crowds, candidates’ platforms we can measure how well the models are functioning. 

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THE FOUR LAWS OF PUBLIC POLICY FORMATION

The First Law of Public Policy Formation is that people with short-term focus will naturally protect their wages, jobs, status, profits, and wealth. (Hopefully not with violence: Politics 1.0)

The Second Law of Public Policy Formation is that people with longer-term focus will naturally place bets to make life better, longer, easier, or different. (Politics 2.0 is usually the two -party system)

The Third Law of Public Policy Formation is that the conflict between short-term focus and long-term-focus naturally causes noise, angst, conflict, and harm. (Politics 3.0 is noise)

The Fourth Law of Public Policy Formation is that policy solutions can now be ranked with a standardized nonpartisan score derived from a level playing field. (Politics 4.0 finds the signal in the noise).

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You can play this week’s game at PolicyKeys.com

Congress’ approval rating is 21%, the Supreme Court’s is 40%, the media 27%, the average score of the policies on the PolicyKeys™ National Idea Leaderboard is 73%—Politics 4.0 is already a 2x to 3x better model of US political sentiment and direction than Politics (as usual) 3.0.

A new PolicyKeys™ Where Can We Agree? Puzzle every Monday at 6am Eastern at PolicyKeys.com. You can read more about PolicyKeys™ Where Can We Agree? in Politics 4.0 How Gamification, AI, and National Idea Leaderboards Can Help You Depolarize the World. The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has recognized PolicyKeys™ for its innovative approach to consensus building.

Finding out where we can agree takes guts ::

Immigration Facts

Four by Four

by Immigration Editor Samantha “Sami” Corkern.

You can view the Local TAP Legal Immigration Box Score here. 

Abundance: 

The United States admits nearly 1 million immigrants into the country each year under a variety of programs, however, the number of new immigrants each year is decreasing.

Commerce:

For every H1-B visa holder admitted into the country, 1.8 new jobs are created.

Governance:  

An additional 370,000 immigrants are needed each year to sustain social security by 2060.

Thrift :

Industries such as Agriculture, Logistics, and Hospitality rely heavily on an immigrant workforce. The Logistics industry alone is predicted to have a need for more than 1 million new employees from 2016 to 2026.

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The United States depends on immigration for economic growth and security.

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Abundance: 

Individuals living in the United States under Temporary Protected Status alone contribute more than $4.5 billion to the economy pretax in addition to $6.9 billion to medicare and social security over 10 year period.

Commerce: 

International students permitted in the United States, who do not have a direct path to citizenship, support more than 458,000 jobs.

Governance:

Immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than native-born citizens, this is the case for property and violent crimes.

Thrift: 

Individuals with Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) contributed $23.6 billion in 2015 without the benefit of receiving Federally funded programs, such as the CAREs Act stimulus checks in 2020.

:: Conclusion ::

Immigrants regularly contribute more to the United States economy than they receive, and commit crimes at lower rates than native born citizens.

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You can play this week’s game at PolicyKeys.com

Congress’ approval rating is 21%, the Supreme Court’s is 40%, the media 27%, the average score of the policies on the PolicyKeys™ National Idea Leaderboard is 73%—Politics 4.0 is already a 2x to 3x better model of US political sentiment and direction than Politics (as usual) 3.0.

A new PolicyKeys™ Where Can We Agree? Puzzle every Monday at 6am Eastern at PolicyKeys.com. You can read more about PolicyKeys™ Where Can We Agree? in Politics 4.0 How Gamification, AI, and National Idea Leaderboards Can Help You Depolarize the World. The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has recognized PolicyKeys™ for its innovative approach to consensus building.

Seeing things from all four sides of the political table takes Guts ::