There is a future for us

There is a future for us humans here on Earth. I think it would take a change of pace. We want to continue making advances, but we also need to weigh the consequences. Put people over progress. Can you imagine a world where we figure out systems where every person can be roughly cared for.

We would have to stop getting so pissed off if someone does something we don't like. Surprising stuff happens, and if it is happening fast it will take some time to get your bearings, and it can be scary. The constant mining people for information is scary, and the ease in which someone can assume someone else's identity is a serious problem. We need real identity. I digress. We need to figure out a way to make the dopamine release for shaming/hating/insulting people online and in person go down. Negative reinforcement is out. The internet could really be a positive place for exploration of the self and connecting with other people because of a single shared context. We've gone from nodes in a web to consuming whatever mass market bullshit from the largest bullhorn for the topic we're interested in.

Deep learning algorithms are the next step in the evolution of science. Unfortunately, in the US, this is going to be a fairly private domain, and people are going to get stupid rich because they bought the data that was mined out of our initial online selves. I guess it's an opportunity cost, as long as some of it gets democratized.

Let's go with the Thiel approach. It's private. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon are the major players. If Meta is still around it's the Sprint of the telecoms. The federal government will provide ungodly amounts of resources to these companies to solve problems. We'll go through a lot of turmoil over the equity of the algorithms. Eventually we'll realize that a lot of these engines can provide a lot more justice than corrupt humans. We'll need to assess all laws for known bias. We can set up a bunch of open source rules, or unit tests, for them. It would need to be a process run on an interval, or maybe we reduce legislation to a build process, and it compiles justice. Heh. Don't break the build

Ok, so, somehow people are nicer, and laws are more just, and real expert systems are working on systemic problems. What do we do about the greedy bastards? Especially the greedy bastards that are working against equity? We make it obvious what direction to go. Don't reward greediness

Get rid of money

Get rid of money

I don't know what to replace it with. It needs to embody care and sustaining acts. It would have to quantify harm, or even better, the opposite. If the richest person on earth also volunteered the most hours, traveled the least, did the least harm, who could fault them?

Once we have this carrot it makes more sense to provide the interface model to manufacturing. With 3D printing and access to other fabricating processes we can push manufacturing to a community resource. Shipping something across the country should be prohibitively expensive for finished goods v/s raw materials.

We can do this, we just need to figure out how.