Dath Ilan

dath ilan is a fictional world and civilization invented by Eliezer Yudkowsky. It is a parallel reality of earth where society is much better at coordination and various good policies have been implemented, though technology is only as advanced as earth's, if not slightly less. It can be thought as a more practical and realistic form of Economist's Paradise. Eliezer first introduced it in his April Fool's day post 'My April Fools Day Confession', where he claimed that he actually came from that world and none of his ideas were original.

The policies in dath ilan include:

• Standard education includes rationality training
• Land Value Tax, positional-goods tax, status-goods tax, marketing-tax - and no income tax.
• Movable Homes
• Autonomous electric cars in tunnels instead of ICE cars on roads.
• No streetlights at night, except for red lights along walkways, which for 45 minutes each night also turn off to see the sky. And on winter solstice (night of stars) the lights stay off the whole night, to give a perfect view of the night sky.

External Posts:

• Until we Build dath ilan