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Originally posted by playswithmachines
Great thread!
Not through all of it yet so i will first adress some issues....
The removal of energy costs from the economic model will have a MASSIVE impact, that much should be obvious.
As Aim64c puts it "time and resources would become your ultimate measures against currency."
Time & resources WILL eventually be the currency, since the energy involved in all other aspects of life will be free.
Originally posted by Amaterasu
Originally posted by Aim64C
reply to post by Amaterasu
Ok. And Your point…?
*sigh*
Plenty of resources were once very scarce. Now they are as (if not more) abundant than water. We still have 'elites.'
We still live in energy scarcity. Whatever resources do, if energy is scarce, We need to account for it. And that means exchange of things We account for it with - today it is money. (Money = meaningful energy expended.)
Once We add abundant free energy, the need to account for it vanishes.
(And BTW… I test well above even the 99th. For whatever that’s worth. And I have studied deeply economics for 50 years and synthesized the solution on that foundation.)
Please. Testing into the 99 percentile is really as far as it goes. It's much like IQ tests - which become heavily distorted the further deviance there is from 100. An IQ of 115 and 120 are farther apart than an IQ of 135 and 140, using most standard tests.
Well... On a test where 100 was average and 130 was the 99th percentile, I scored 159. For whatever that's worth.
Not really. I guess You are unclear on the general meaning as it is used on this site. See suggestions for alternatives above.
I'm clear on it. I'm telling you that it's a piss poor term to use to ambiguously describe a nameless and faceless group you direct your frustrations toward.
So... I gave You alternatives. And I do not "direct [My] frustrations" anywhere. I plan to even the field.
Your point here is completely obscure to me.
Not unexpected. Unfortunately, there's not much that can be done to help you.
Cute. Oblique rudeness.
However, for those reading along - my point is that many resources have been excruciatingly vital and rare in the past. Salt was used as a form of currency. Now we throw it on the roads to melt ice - something that would have been unthinkable in Roman times (where you would have gone out and shoveled the stuff). It was modern mining operations and supply lines that have made salt, almost literally, as cheap as dirt.
It's NOT about resources. It's about money/power/energy - three forms of the same thing, like ice/water/steam.
Are there enough People, having all They want when They want it, who would choose to monitor? If not, build robotic monitors. Geez. Why is this an issue for You? Do continue the list. Please.
Who would design and monitor the robots?
I know MANY who love to design and work on robots. It is Their bliss. Those are the Ones. If They have all They need and want, They will choose to spend time with the robots.
Somebody has to do something - if not by demand, they will do it by choice, and eventually develop something that requires human involvement.
The necessary things no One wants to do can be done by robots. All else will be done by Those whose bliss is to do them. Simple enough.
Best start with subquantum kinetics, eh? It has produced far more in the way of testable (and tested) predictions than Relativity has…
Really....
So, after reading this book, I will know all I need to know in order to build one of these free energy devices, if I am to interpret your statements correctly.
Likely, yes. Presuming You are reasonably bright as You so claim.
Else, I have to accept that the books do not do an adequate job of describing the theory - as you "test above the 99 percentile," have read the books (and understand the theories)... yet have not built one of these devices.
Initially it requires money for resources (parts, etc.) and lab space. (Once enough devices are built, such resources and space will be free as the cost of energy is removed down the line.) I am living in a shelter and literally do not have a penny to My name. Makes it difficult to build anything.
A curious set of circumstances, to say the least.
Just the luck of the draw (read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers to grasp that the biggest role in success is luck).edit on 12/12/2011 by Amaterasu because: tags
Originally posted by playswithmachines
reply to post by Aim64C
I whish you luck with your project, but don't place too much faith in the 'classical' physics model, yes, it works on the surface, but it is deeply flawed.
They know this & perpetuate the myth.
Originally posted by Amaterasu
Originally posted by mandroids
it makes sense. you can fly anywhere anytime for free; freedom!!
More than that, You won't have to pay to fly. Nor pay for Your housing, pay for Your food, pay for Your clothing, pay for Your tools, or anything. Just order it all on the Web.
You can get up when You want, do what You want, go where You want, and sleep when You want. Truly: freedom!
Establish the three Laws:
-----Do not willfully harm or kill another Being (Human or ET)
-----Do not willfully take or damage another Being's property
-----Do not willfully defraud another Being
Supplant the "work ethic" (the slave's ethic) with the Betterment Ethic (the noble Being's Ethic).
Open source all public works.
Focus on organic (in the true sense and not a trumped up legal sense) food.
Create robots to do all necessary work no One wants to do.
This will free Us from planned obsolescence (giving Us freedom from waste), hidden cures (allowing Us health freedom), good food (freedom from hunger and unhealthy chemicals), and having to give up on Our bliss to find a job (freedom from wage slavery).edit on 12/13/2011 by Amaterasu because: format
Originally posted by RogerT
reply to post by Amaterasu
I agree with everything you are saying so far in this thread.
Are you saying you could build a FE machine if you had the funds?
How much do you need, I might be able to help?
Originally posted by RogerT
Originally posted by Amaterasu
Originally posted by mandroids
it makes sense. you can fly anywhere anytime for free; freedom!!
More than that, You won't have to pay to fly. Nor pay for Your housing, pay for Your food, pay for Your clothing, pay for Your tools, or anything. Just order it all on the Web.
You can get up when You want, do what You want, go where You want, and sleep when You want. Truly: freedom!
Establish the three Laws:
-----Do not willfully harm or kill another Being (Human or ET)
-----Do not willfully take or damage another Being's property
-----Do not willfully defraud another Being
Supplant the "work ethic" (the slave's ethic) with the Betterment Ethic (the noble Being's Ethic).
Open source all public works.
Focus on organic (in the true sense and not a trumped up legal sense) food.
Create robots to do all necessary work no One wants to do.
This will free Us from planned obsolescence (giving Us freedom from waste), hidden cures (allowing Us health freedom), good food (freedom from hunger and unhealthy chemicals), and having to give up on Our bliss to find a job (freedom from wage slavery).edit on 12/13/2011 by Amaterasu because: format
Sorry, for clarity, can you expand on law number 2. When the monetary system is gone, won't we be able to move into a paradigm of non-ownership. If all is freely available, why would I consider something MY property, and even more appropos, why would I ever take something away from someone else when I can get my own delivered immediately from the local depot.
Not trying to be argumentative here, just wondering if we can slim the guidelines/laws down to a single one: Do your best not to harm anyone!
Originally posted by Amaterasu
Actually, We will have a SOCIAL currency in the form of fame and veneration. If Your bliss is to cook for Others, You can earn "currency" by serving awesome culinary experiences, and Your name will be on many tongues when the question of good food comes up. And so on.
Originally posted by RogerT
Originally posted by Amaterasu
Actually, We will have a SOCIAL currency in the form of fame and veneration. If Your bliss is to cook for Others, You can earn "currency" by serving awesome culinary experiences, and Your name will be on many tongues when the question of good food comes up. And so on.
Once people get into their 'bliss' as you term it, they won't even need fame or veneration.
Doing what you love in service of others is its own reward. A thank you is nice, but not necessary.
Surely everyone has at least some small measure of experience performing some random act of kindness to a stranger to verify this as true?
Most people will struggle to understand these concepts which are self-evident to those that can use their imagination to create this kind of future for humanity.
Money is a dying paradigm already, IMO and IME. Those who have succeeded sufficiently in the money game to know it is unwinnable and ultimately limiting and disabling (rather than the myth that it offers freedom and enables) can tell you from direct experience
Yes, money enables tyranny, corruption, violence, abuse, un-natural expression of power and force, and all the other stuff we don't like, but the other end of the see-saw is surprisingly empty once you get up their to experience it.
Originally posted by playswithmachines
Like that Anon thread a lot
I also liked your 3 laws;
Do not willfully hurt or kill another Being
Do not willfully take or damage another Being's property
Do not willfully defraud another Being
They are similar to mine, which are an adaptation of Asimov's robot laws, actually there are 4..
Do not harm, or through inaction, allow others to come to harm.
Do your best to help others, except where that conflicts with the first law.
Seek to better yourself & your surroundings, except where that conflicts with the first 2 laws.
You are free to do whatever you like, so long as it does not violate any of the above laws.
Then we have the so-called Zeroth law; The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
This last one gives the most problems, and has been adressed countless times, unfortunately, us humans still have yet to decide what 'the needs of the many' are, and if it's worth 'the few' that will pay the price.
Right now, it's 'the few' that dictates the needs of 'the many'; now that can't be right