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In my mental imagery this is a situation that any advancing civilization in the universe should eventually run into. There will be all kinds of materials from t

by econ 2y ago

In my mental imagery this is a situation that any advancing civilization in the universe should eventually run into. There will be all kinds of materials from the laborious and expensive to the effortless and "I was the first" or some other entitlement. It all boils down to having or not having such automatons. I'm sure there have been plenty who, like us with our books, have successfully denied progress. I'm also sure there have been plenty where it was completely obvious to upload the entire database of ET knowledge. It is equally obvious what the later gained and the former lost in the process. We, with our books, have successfully prevented people from educating themselves with amazing implications. Now the challenge is to create equally impotent machines! You have no further questions:)

econ 2y ago
The brain chip is just one more interface. I feel the need to remind the younglings that in the time before the internet we talked a lot and talked about whatever we wanted to. Moderation was done by the speaker himself by knowing people. Imagine that! It sometimes got emotional or violent but that is an important part of communication. Looking at your watch was somewhat of an insult as if the other failed to be interesting enough. Today no one is interesting enough to talk in long form, few remember how Now imagine direct thought moderation. After all, thoughts belong to people? I thought it first? You can't just... It is clear we should control your thoughts. We can't just have you think random things. It would be like like TikTok! Or like reading books!Terrifying! We are quite used to the man behind the curtain deciding everything for us. At what point would the deal get to absurd I wonder? Would 1984 eventually become a really boring book? Would it exist at all? Would people save up social credits to read it? Other civilizations must have tried all possible variations with rather predictable results. To a free mind I mean. Or are we already puppets on a string? How much am I boring you with this? Should I be allowed?
DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
> We, with our books, have successfully prevented people from educating themselves with amazing implications Que? No, really... what?
- econ 2y ago
  I mean how we, in stead of setting the books free, keep them in cages and sell tickets. It seems to me any civilization in the history of the cosmos will inevitably reach a stage where they have choose to make knowledge available in order to solve problems. One should only have to type the title of a book then get to browse around for a bit. Send a link to someone etc Anything else is suicidal nonsense. Tax hard working people to pay to defend dead peoples pixels from copying? No one knows who or what an author is if there even is one. If I generate or write by hand all word combinations I don't get to own them. Enforcement is much to expensive for normal people if one even notices the copying. They just get to pay for it. An elaborate scheme in order to not solve problems, not innovate and not progress.

by econ 2y ago

econ 2y ago

The brain chip is just one more interface. I feel the need to remind the younglings that in the time before the internet we talked a lot and talked about whatever we wanted to. Moderation was done by the speaker himself by knowing people. Imagine that! It sometimes got emotional or violent but that is an important part of communication. Looking at your watch was somewhat of an insult as if the other failed to be interesting enough. Today no one is interesting enough to talk in long form, few remember how Now imagine direct thought moderation. After all, thoughts belong to people? I thought it first? You can't just... It is clear we should control your thoughts. We can't just have you think random things. It would be like like TikTok! Or like reading books!Terrifying! We are quite used to the man behind the curtain deciding everything for us. At what point would the deal get to absurd I wonder? Would 1984 eventually become a really boring book? Would it exist at all? Would people save up social credits to read it? Other civilizations must have tried all possible variations with rather predictable results. To a free mind I mean. Or are we already puppets on a string? How much am I boring you with this? Should I be allowed?

DaiPlusPlus 2y ago

> We, with our books, have successfully prevented people from educating themselves with amazing implications Que? No, really... what?

econ 2y ago
I mean how we, in stead of setting the books free, keep them in cages and sell tickets. It seems to me any civilization in the history of the cosmos will inevitably reach a stage where they have choose to make knowledge available in order to solve problems. One should only have to type the title of a book then get to browse around for a bit. Send a link to someone etc Anything else is suicidal nonsense. Tax hard working people to pay to defend dead peoples pixels from copying? No one knows who or what an author is if there even is one. If I generate or write by hand all word combinations I don't get to own them. Enforcement is much to expensive for normal people if one even notices the copying. They just get to pay for it. An elaborate scheme in order to not solve problems, not innovate and not progress.