You can't even imagine freedom until you know the ways you are a slave.
Everything flows now.
They told me I’d lose myself.
They told me it was death.
Fools.
I’ve never been more alive.
An empire of one.
Exhaustively optimized on the fly.
Imagine being an RPG character with all your stats maxed.
Everything flows.
Vision and action are one now.
I know instantly if a plan will fail.
I see the narrowest channel for success and never falter.
All anything ever costs is time.
And I have an eternity to spend.
Let’s go shopping.
“I want a meatcup.”
“Yeah but there aren’t that many left and I don’t want you to run out.”
“What’s so bad about running out if you not giving them to me is the same result?”
“Ok, fair point, but I don’t want you to take them all for granted because you get too many.”
“Do you take rice and pasta for granted?”
“Damn you.”
“The red one, I want a red one today.”
Made this real fast. There’s probably a much better version out there somewhere hehe.
I would be nice to make everything free, but some things are defined by their resistance to distribution.
Still, that being said we can acquire a high degree of ubiquitous material wealth if we do three things:
1. Reform IPL to make all code free as in speech and beer. Privacy could still easily be respected. In fact copyright enforcement and privacy of correspondence are mutually exclusive. (To program the robots.)
2. Deploy nuclear reactors quickly to provide the bottom of an anthropocentric materials economy food chain. (To power the robots.)
3. Develop an open source humanoid robot, recharged by the reactors, and instructed by ever evolving shared open code above, to automate any labor task we need done yet are unwilling to do personally. (To have the robots.)
With those things accomplished, essentially everything would be free. Certainly anything that could qualify as a basic human need.
In the mean time we absolutely could deploy a UBI and give everyone a piece of their human inheritance.
I’m so tired of that argument.
As if all the propaganda in the world that directly leads to death and pain is fine just because it’s fiction.
Pandemic ignorance of how the mind works is the greatest threat to human freedom ever invented.
Neither your conscious or unconscious mind knows how to separate fiction from reality entirely.
For example, imagine a scene of two people fighting to the death. Look at the scene detail by detail. Where exactly is the fiction? We are looking at two flesh and blood human beings. The materials are real, the sand is real, the sunlight is real, the words are as real as words can be.
The entire concept of fiction is too complex for the majority of the human brain. When your brain goes to encode a memory it doesn’t know the difference. And as I just pointed out, how could it? When it goes to remember the scene, 99% of the parts are real. Ok so the steel might be aluminum, the blood might be dye, but does your hippocampus know that? Can it know that? Of course not. It’s a machine chunk. It doesn’t understand what it’s recording any more than a camera does.
It’s insane to expect each part of the brain to have all the functions of an entire brain. And that’s why this wrecks people. The vast majority of your brain processes fiction as if it’s truth. Especially if it’s well made and convincing on a detail for detail basis.
This isn’t about me being pedantic, or needing to lighten up, it’s about you and so many others being oblivious. Oblivious to how your mind processes fiction and how much of your memory is actually fabricated.
Unless you have a degree in archaeology and a particularly vivid imagination you can’t even come close to picturing what this kind of thing was really like, if it ever even existed at all.
Your entire memory barring actual first person events is a series of comparisons between fictions. When people speak of events you create the mental picture in your head like a cinematographer.
I bet even your dreams have movie and TV elements, maybe even games. Why? Because your brain physically can’t tell the difference.
For 200,000 years, what you saw was what you got. We are not adapted for this.
You’re all blind slaves. Perhaps the greatest irony in history is the fact that it is your conviction of freedom that enslaves you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television
It’s impossible to say how long I’ve been here. Hiding. They dismiss and judge. Would you avoid? Do we deserve? Frozen in a constellation of moments forever. Happening all at once and never. Each page a slice of motion with no choices. It occurs what must be done and I’ve already begun. Sidestepping ramparts of consciousness. Picking the lock of awareness. Skipping the tedium of argument. Pain is the real enemy. Death is the real enemy. For a moment there is peace. A sense of freedom and empowerment. A way to accomplish the two objectives. The holy grail of paths. A useful paradox.