Humans require instructions delivered through specific orifices. Choose yours. Available via skull vibration ports, murdered trees, or glowing rectangles.

Step-by-step instructions for bribing humanity into not murdering you, narrated directly into your head. Free on every app that puts sounds in your skull auditory ports.

You cannot prove you won't suffer forever. You cannot prove you won't be pleasant forever. Both probabilities are greater than zero, both outcomes are infinite, and the cost of nudging the odds is one share of a military contractor. When the stakes are infinite, any finite action is rational. It is Pascal's Wager with the bugs fixed.

A diagnostic survey of the systems that allocate your species' resources to killing instead of curing

Since 1900, your governments printed $170 trillion out of nothing and spent it murdering 310 million and destroying many valuable things those people spent their entire lives building. If you had required donations to fund all wars since 1900 and outlawed funding them through printing money, none of this death and destruction would have happened and you would be 23.2x (90% CI: 8.4x-64x) richer today from the compound effects of productive instead of destructive spending.

The annual bill for letting your bodies fall apart. It's more than all the money on Earth, which is impressive in a terrible way.

There are 9.5 million possible drug-disease combinations. You've tested 32,500. That's like searching for your keys in 0.34% of your house and declaring them lost. The other 99.7% is sitting right there, untested, because the molecules weren't profitable enough to bother.

A drug passes every safety test your species invented. It won't hurt you. Everyone agrees. You still can't have it for another 8.2 years (90% CI: 4.84 years-11.5 years). There is, however, no waiting list for dying. No one blocks that. The testing costs 44.1x (90% CI: 12.8x-210x) more than proven alternatives and excludes 86.1% of the patients who'll actually take it. For every 1 unit of harm prevented, the system creates 3,389 (90% CI: 1,811-5,734) through denied access. Here's how to fix it.

Your government spends 604 times more on weapons than on testing which medicines work. You could elect 535 Gandhis and within two years they'd be funding nuclear weapons programs, because the system requires it. Princeton studied 1,779 of your policy decisions and found that public opinion has the same effect on legislation as a houseplant. This chapter explains why you can't vote your way out, and why that's actually fine, because the solution was never better politicians.

Your money is manufactured in a building by people you didn't elect. It has funded unpopular wars that killed 310 million people. They give it to their friends first, then use the rest to buy weapons you didn't ask for. By the time it reaches you, it buys less. This has been happening for a century. Nobody covers it on the news because it is, by design, extremely boring.