In 24 hours, you are going to be born into the world. A genie comes to you and makes you a proposal: the genie will give you the next 24 hours to design the world into which you will be born (including all of the systems and rules that everyone will live by). That sounds like a pretty good deal. So you ask the genie, “What’s the catch?” The genie looks at you and says, “In this bowl are 6.6 billion lottery balls. They represent all of the people in the world. You get to pick one of them, randomly, … Read more »
