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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1160 on: 22/12/2023 09:06:13 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 21/12/2023 23:33:03
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 21/12/2023 11:47:32
If you haven't found the common goal of selfish, altruist, and patriotic actions, let me help you.  They all try to give benefits to future conscious entities.
Selfishness is not directed to the future of anyone except the selfish person. Patriotism is all about venerating the past.
Even a selfish person is a conscious entity, although their consciousness level is below average person. Since the consideration for their actions are more limited by their own life time.
The past cannot be changed. They may think that the past was good, which needs to be conserved to the future. Their intentional actions are still based on their expectations of the future.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1161 on: 22/12/2023 09:09:00 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 21/12/2023 23:33:03
And there is no common goal. Think football: everyone is trying to get the ball into a goal, but there are two very distinct goals.
Football is a game, and its common goal is to have fun. If it doesn't give you fun, you should try some other games.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1162 on: 22/12/2023 17:12:13 »
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 22/12/2023 09:06:13
Even a selfish person is a conscious entity, although their consciousness level is below average person.
How did you measure that?
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1163 on: 22/12/2023 17:14:50 »
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 22/12/2023 08:57:51
They don't say that they will let people suffer from natural disasters and other natural problems.
Nobody said they did. But Trump's response to Californian wildfires and Johnson's response to COVID was total indifference followed by direct denial of the scientific evidence.  Trump was elected, and Johnson selected, on a platform of xenophobia.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1164 on: 23/12/2023 04:01:27 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 22/12/2023 17:12:13
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 22/12/2023 09:06:13
Even a selfish person is a conscious entity, although their consciousness level is below average person.
How did you measure that?
By the span of their influence, in both space and time.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1165 on: 23/12/2023 04:06:37 »
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 12/12/2023 14:58:49
I planned to make a video about natural consciousness, and how functional components of consciousness can emerge from natural processes.
David Shapiro has uploaded a video describing systems in general, which is in line with my planned video.
Systems Thinking 001 - What is a system?
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What is a system?

1. A collection of nodes, linkages, and boundaries
2. Node = person, place, or thing (can also be a concept) - some kind of entity
3. Linkage = connection that transmits matter, energy, or information (signals) between two or more nodes
4. Boundaries = the sphere of influence of a system (rigid, flexible, fuzzy, or porous)
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1166 on: 23/12/2023 15:32:59 »
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 23/12/2023 04:01:27
Quote from: alancalverd on 22/12/2023 17:12:13
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 22/12/2023 09:06:13
Even a selfish person is a conscious entity, although their consciousness level is below average person.
How did you measure that?
By the span of their influence, in both space and time.
So the syphilis bacterium (the cause of the Anglican church) and the influenza virus (most lethal entity on the planet to date) are the most conscious entities known to Man.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1167 on: 24/12/2023 05:16:36 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 23/12/2023 15:32:59
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 23/12/2023 04:01:27
Quote from: alancalverd on 22/12/2023 17:12:13
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Even a selfish person is a conscious entity, although their consciousness level is below average person.
How did you measure that?
By the span of their influence, in both space and time.
So the syphilis bacterium (the cause of the Anglican church) and the influenza virus (most lethal entity on the planet to date) are the most conscious entities known to Man.
Afaik, they have no influence beyond earth atmosphere. Their influence is potentially stopped with advanced nanotechnology and molecular biology.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1168 on: 24/12/2023 11:23:42 »
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 24/12/2023 05:16:36
Afaik, they have no influence beyond earth atmosphere.
Nor do humans. When we enter or leave earth orbit, we take the atmosphere with us. Unlike us, viruses and bacteria can probably survive for long periods without it, and despite bombardment with cosmic radiation.

Face it, we are descended from bacteria, so even if the original species is extinct, the whole concept of bacterial DNA is a lot more influential than our pathetic species.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1169 on: 31/12/2023 04:56:53 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 24/12/2023 11:23:42
Nor do humans.
FYI, humans are planning to colonize the moon and terraform Mars. There are autonomous robots exploring space, planets, moons, asteroids, intentionally crushed into space objects to change their trajectory, etc. Maybe you didn't know those things because they haven't affected your life, yet.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1170 on: 31/12/2023 04:59:10 »
How do we get to UBI and Post-Labor Economics? Decentralized Ownership: the New Social Contract!
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PHASE 1 - EARLY VICTIMS
 First victims are creatives (default value of creativity is zero)
 Back office (clerical, administrative) is on deck
 RULE OF THUMB: forgivable and unregulated jobs most vulnerable


PHASE 2 - WINDING DOWN
 Shorter work weeks proposed as a way to transition away from human labor
 Gives people time to adapt to life after work, find new hobbies, find new meaning, etc
 Gives companies an opportunity (and incentive) to automate more stuff
 RECOMMENDATION: Move to a 4 day work week ASAP, then a 3 day. This will pave the way for a smoother transition!
 RECOMMENDATION: Remote work so that people can preemptively move to lower cost and preferred areas to live (prime example: ME)


PHASE 3 - SAFETY NETS
 As TOTAL EMPLOYMENT plateaus and begins to drop, the establishment (Fed, States) acknowledge the reality
 Existing tools (unemployment benefits, etc) expanded and utilized while STATUS QUO is attempted to be put back
 As NEETs continue to rise, acknolwedge of NEW ECONOMIC PARADIGM emerges (Post-Labor Economics is needed)
 MILESTONE: Politicians and mainstream media start talking about this stuff (might use different names) but watch for AGI and "labor market" shifts


PHASE 4 - POST-LABOR ECONOMICS
 Cities, States, and Federal governments all reconcile with the new economic paradigm
 UBI and UBS implemented (probably starting with stuff like basic utilities, power, water, internet, phone)
 REDISTRIBUTION of some form becomes necessary but problems persist!


NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT
 Old social contract: "Government mediates relationship between labor and business"
 But labor is going away... so now what?
 New social contract: "Government mediates relationship between citizens and business"
 Okay... but what does that look like?


ECONOMIC AGENCY
 Biggest problem with UBI and UBS is that it takes away most agency
 Sure, you can choose where to live (unless housing is alloted to you) but that's just straight up Communism with a capital C
 NO ME GUSTA
 So how do we maintain economic agency in this Post-Labor Economics paradigm when we aren't exchanging labor in a labor market?


DECENTRALIZED OWNERSHIP
 It hit me like a ton of bricks - duh! Decentralized ownership!!
 DAOs - maybe one path forward
 Public Trusts - another option
 Local Coops - farms, utilities, goods and services


SWARM DAO
 Vaguely launching an expansion of my agent swarm initiative
 I think that a DAO could be a great way for collective ownership of AI-driven companies
 This model could be congruent with capitalism and wealthy investors (they can still invest in anything, but we all get more equal voting power, and the AI swarm abides by stakeholder capitalism rather than shareholder capitalism)
 This is HIGHLY experimental and speculative
 

EXPERTISE GAP
 Not everyone is an expert manager, or qualified to run these things
 AI to the rescue!
 If AI is smart enough to dislocate 80% of jobs (or more) then it's smart enough to run utilities and businesses ON OUR BEHALF
 Maybe blockchain/DAO is the way we manage and direct the AI?


STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM
 Pushed by Larry Fink of Black Rock (kinda sus, NGL)
 Idea is simple: instead of maximizing value of shareholders (which kills the planet) you maximize value of all stakeholders
 Customers, employees, vendors, environment, and bystanders
 What if... this is part of the new social contract?
 What if... the way we implement this is with decentralized ownership?


CITY POLICIES
 Towns and cities everywhere can prepare for URBAN EXODUS
 Moving out of expensive cities to lower COL places is key for everyone (economic efficiency, lifestyle changes)
 UBS best organized and operated locally
 Circular economics implemented at municipal level too


STATE POLICIES
 Collective ownership generally established at state level (Vermont allows for DAOs)
 Relocation and resettlement support and initiatives
 Some UBI and redistribution should happen at state level as well, other safety nets


FEDERAL POLICIES
 New Social Contract must be led by president and congress
 Teddy's Square Deal, Franklin's New Deal, now we need Dave's Fair Deal (lol)
 Renegotiating the social contract and gently transitioning to this new economic paradigm is absolutely critical for the stability of the nation



TIMELINE
 IMF and Goldman Sachs aim for around 2027 to 2028 when all this really starts to ramp up
 We should expect gradual expansion of "Frontier of Automation" starting... yesterday
 Regulatory hurdles take a while
 Bell curve of adoption will still be a thing (presently in Early Adopters phase, Early Majority to start in 2024)
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1171 on: 31/12/2023 11:43:23 »
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 31/12/2023 04:56:53
FYI, humans are planning to colonize the moon and terraform Mars.
My point precisely. We can't live outside our own atmosphere, so to travel more than about 30,000 ft away from the earth's surface, we have to take an atmosphere with us.

I sincerely hope we don't infect other planets with our waste products. They are interesting simply because they don't (as far as we know) have any trace of terrestrial life.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1172 on: 01/01/2024 11:08:29 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 31/12/2023 11:43:23
I sincerely hope we don't infect other planets with our waste products.
Why not?

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They are interesting simply because they don't (as far as we know) have any trace of terrestrial life.
If some traces were found in the future, would it make them less interesting?
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« Reply #1173 on: 01/01/2024 11:28:50 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 31/12/2023 11:43:23
My point precisely. We can't live outside our own atmosphere, so to travel more than about 30,000 ft away from the earth's surface, we have to take an atmosphere with us.
Don't you know something called closed circuit rebreather and Regenerative carbon dioxide removal system?
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« Reply #1174 on: 01/01/2024 13:32:56 »
Use them a  lot. But we're just recycling the earth's atmosphere on a small scale. Without plants and water, animals would die. Without animals and bacteria, plants would die. The big system is driven by sunshine, the PLSS is driven by a battery.
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« Reply #1175 on: 02/01/2024 11:15:32 »
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Use them a  lot. But we're just recycling the earth's atmosphere on a small scale. Without plants and water, animals would die. Without animals and bacteria, plants would die. The big system is driven by sunshine, the PLSS is driven by a battery.
What future organisms look like don't have to be the same as how they are now, nor how they were back then. They could be vastly different, unrecognizable by today's standards.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1176 on: 02/01/2024 12:20:11 »
Then they won't be human. Our most intelligent successors are likely to be cockroaches.
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1177 on: 03/01/2024 14:01:31 »
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Then they won't be human. Our most intelligent successors are likely to be cockroaches.
What makes you think that way?
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1178 on: 03/01/2024 14:55:32 »
There is no terminal goal. 
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Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?
« Reply #1179 on: 04/01/2024 03:23:46 »
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There is no terminal goal. 
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