Really more of a PR spectacle than a worthwhile experiment.
Including humans seems to have caused most of the problems there. If you actually wanted to experiment with closed biological systems in a useful way then I'd recommend doing a bunch of trials with a less cantankerous species of large omnivorous mammal, like the goat.
Taiwan was originally not a country, but it became one when it held elections. Having been elected by the people of the island of Formosa, and with no other legitimate government laying claim to that territory, they became a legitimate government.
The fact that the CCP has a group of men with guns occupying China does not make them in any sense a government, it just makes them the world's largest and most murderous criminal gang. We should stop pretending that China has a government and start working on how to bring them to the Hague for trial.
There's only a few dozen remaining completely unelected "governments" in the world, and yes, we should definitely get rid of all of them.
Certainly Taiwan never had a legitimate government either until recently but now they do, demonstrating that it can be done. I hope that the CCP can peacefully give up power too, but we should not take any military options off the table.
A better point would be that the current CCP regime in Beijing has no legitimate claim to be any kind of government with any legal claim over any territory whatsoever.
An unelected government is not a government, it's just a group of thugs who happen to have control over a capital city.
If China has any sort of legitimate government at all it's the one in Taiwan which was at least elected by somebody. But really, mainland China has no government, and the CCP should not be talked to or negotiated with as if they are a government.
I don't know how anyone can look at the US and come to the conclusion that there's too many people in prison. When I walk down the streets of any major US city I get the exact opposite impression -- a lot more people should be in prison.
The US doesn't have too many prisoners, it has far far far too many criminals, and the high incarceration rates are an inevitable product of that. The US needs to solve that problem first.
How many criminals are the offspring of other criminals? To what extent could the crime problem be solved in a single generation by ensuring that teenage offenders are locked up throughout their reproductively active years (instead of forever dipping in and out of prison on short sentences) to ensure that they don't reproduce?
I fully agree that website owners shouldn't lose the right to determine what goes up on their own website, but with the caveat that this right also comes with legal liability for anything that's on there.
It seems to me that social media companies should only be allowed the legal protection of being "platforms" if they are truly neutral. No censorship, no algorithms.
Facebook should only be allowed to show you a feed of all your friends' posts, in chronological order. Twitter should only show you the tweets of people that you've followed, in chronological order.
Aside from solving any potential censorship or manipulation problems, it would also make a much more pleasant user experience than the unnavigable garbage that is Facebook's current product.
While in general I agree with the idea of debating the strongest version of your opponent's ideas, I think it's okay to call out a clear motte-and-bailey when you see one, and require the other team to come back with a sensibly-phrased proposition to debate.
If you tell me "We should kill all the Jews, and by 'Kill all the Jews' obviously I mean that we should increase capital gains tax by two percent" then I'm not going to debate capital gains tax with you, I'm going to tell you to go away and come back when you stop using words in such a deliberately ridiculous way.
Including humans seems to have caused most of the problems there. If you actually wanted to experiment with closed biological systems in a useful way then I'd recommend doing a bunch of trials with a less cantankerous species of large omnivorous mammal, like the goat.