‘Fictions‘ are imagined, shared human abstractions that enable our societies. ‘Vindan’s fictions‘ are fictions that legitimise and are legitimised by other fictions, thereby creating a hierarchy of upper (common) and lower (foundational) fictions. A Vindanist is a social engineer who first studies the many hierarchies of fictions that exist and have existed in our world, observes how the many institutions therein interact and how these connections flow, shift, and change, and then, using this knowledge, deliberately and carefully remodels the hierarchy of fictions in his own society to bring about enormous change, for better or worse.

The elementary day is the set of actions, thoughts, and beliefs demonstrated by a person on a normal, average day, by which, in my belief, that person is wholly defined. One’s elementary day is as plastic as the human mind is, and therefore, it is the reengineering of one’s daily conduct rather than the completion of a checklist of objectives that leads to success.

How intelligent the agents of an economy are is the most important factor in how wealthy their society is. These agents, therefore, would want to increase the aggregate index of cognitive ability in their society. They can do that in either of two ways: building a second agent that is much smarter than them (ASI), or making themselves much starter than they were (genomics etc).