Cost reduction suggestion

there may be ways to reduce costs associated with the development of Census-equivalent statistics, including relying less on the general public to answer questions every five years

How to deal with the problem of conceptualization, as the process of finding terms and applying meaning to things always means reduction of complexity? A solution might be to subvert connotations and implicit meanings by highlighting certain presuppositions. This might be the task of social science, in a broader sense of philosophy (cf. Adorno, who defines philosophy's major task, simply put, in interpreting the world).

This is something that seems relevant to The Well Wrought Urn and the heresy of paraphrase, which argues that poetry can't be treated as reducible to quotes and snippets of text.

This is just one specific type of the classes of satisfiability problems (a.k.a. search problems).

Other related problems include: Linear equation satisfiability, Linear inequality satisfiability, 0-1 integer linear equation satisfiability.

Given the current context (of search problems), all the above are known as NP problems in general (with the observation, that the classic definition of NP limited the scope to only YES-NO problems).

One can think of search problems as "one of many ways of characterizing the set of problems that form the basis of the study of intractability". Other ways include viewing such problems through the lenses of decision problems or optimization problems. In other words, problems in any of the aforementioned types can be translated between (or more formally, reduced to) each other with relative ease.

Source(s): http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/66intractability/

DrugScience (formerly Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs)

I'm not so sure this is the case across the board. Our desires don't always serve us.

I sometimes do want gatekeepers to prevent me from hurting myself.

I don't know how to translate this into advice for the next generation of media, though.