I feel the need to type this out even though the odds of this being true are incredibly slim.
Russia is on the brink of a potential economic disaster, in part driven by America increasing oil production to Cold War levels (a tactic that was used to bancrupt the USSR).
There is also a need for a dramatic event to shift the focus away from the economy in the event that Christmas sales are too weak (i.e. the realization that the recovered economy and consumer confidence is a mirage).
Assuming the Dark Queen Senario is true, over the longer term NSA spying needs to be normalized and embraced while the growth of techology supressed. Technology is the greatest threat to the powers that be, within a short period of time people will realize its true potential. It makes all systems of control unnecessary and useless, while also freeing us from having to work. Once this awareness is wide spread it will be impossible to supress without an uprising, it must be stopped before that point.
This brings me to the speculation. The hacking of Sony, allegedly by software that looks North Korean combined, and terrorist bomb threat is ridiculous. The only reasonable conclusion is that it is NOT North Korean in source. The state is run by psychopaths, but they are not mentally ill. They do not have a death wish, especially over a dumb movie airing in a country that they firmly believe is 100% brain washed to begin with. No private citizen in love with Kim Jung Un would do it either, since that would result in him, his family, and his parents being worked to death in prison camps.
One possibility is that this is a set up for false flag terrorist attacks. The framing already done, and now a justification for both more NSA and a war in Asia will be created.
The way I see it is that if this actually exists as an option, that is all it is, nothing is set in stone. Every month something will be available for use so that when the time is right the system can be mobilized, or rather, when the time is wrong, they have a plan B already set up.
I think realistically though that this is just some elaborate prank involving people that hate Sony. There are plenty of reasons to hate Sony.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Thoughts on The Messiah
The understanding [to those that actually get it] is that the threat does not exist because they are all undead or the impact will be small enough that they can deal with it. [To those that do not get it, they just think it is impossible, they see no potential in the blue tribe.]
That is the risk of having just one born from the dead. [An event so rare that the likelyhood of more than one at a time is incredible small, thus, no-one perceives the possiblity of more than one messiah at the same time, although, I should clarify, there kinda is two, depends how you slice it.]
Most in charge think it is a phantastical delusion. The others that believe the day will come are merely supersticious and can't actually conceive of a rationale. Such is the problem with the undead, they can not see what the living see.
Their other, larger failure [because it gives a false sense of security], is a failure to consider the impact of such a person. Surely all the nations in power can stop a single person who has to start from scratch. Why sweat the small stuff? Most don't want him around, worst case senario we can all team up to take him [or her] out. Let's instead keep our eyes on Russia or China or the US or the people in general or [insert largest current threat]. No prophecy could have predicted the power we wield today, it is hardly of this world... a bunch of schizos, bipoles, and druggies think they have it figured out? Oh please! what have they ever accomplished?
...What they fail to understand is that for every peice they place on the board, so sits its anti-thesis. By the very definition of an unbalanced system, an inescapable truth that is impossible to deny, and only one is needed to open that flood gate.
What they have done is created the most glorious playing feild for the dead, they just can't perceive it, so they can't use it... but it is there never-the-less. More so than anyone can even begin to imagine. A seemingly infinite supply of information, and all the necessary resources available at almost no cost. So cheap and easy that even a homeless man could set the world free.
Why? Because they had to make it in order to falsely propup their distorted system. In fact, the more they try to make themselves greater, the heaver the weights that exist on the other side. Pound for pound, the situation actually gets worse, but they are blinded by the short term. They can't even see it.
In essence, it is a bubble that no one knows how to exploit...
Until now.
[To restate: In order to get the same returns in an unbalanced system while still not correcting the unbalance one must essentially double down, creating geometric growth in the wrong side in order to just maintain ones position; they however, do not realize the massive arsenal they are preparing for their antithesis, a position they fail to fully understand.]
[edit: typo/better wording]
That is the risk of having just one born from the dead. [An event so rare that the likelyhood of more than one at a time is incredible small, thus, no-one perceives the possiblity of more than one messiah at the same time, although, I should clarify, there kinda is two, depends how you slice it.]
Most in charge think it is a phantastical delusion. The others that believe the day will come are merely supersticious and can't actually conceive of a rationale. Such is the problem with the undead, they can not see what the living see.
Their other, larger failure [because it gives a false sense of security], is a failure to consider the impact of such a person. Surely all the nations in power can stop a single person who has to start from scratch. Why sweat the small stuff? Most don't want him around, worst case senario we can all team up to take him [or her] out. Let's instead keep our eyes on Russia or China or the US or the people in general or [insert largest current threat]. No prophecy could have predicted the power we wield today, it is hardly of this world... a bunch of schizos, bipoles, and druggies think they have it figured out? Oh please! what have they ever accomplished?
...What they fail to understand is that for every peice they place on the board, so sits its anti-thesis. By the very definition of an unbalanced system, an inescapable truth that is impossible to deny, and only one is needed to open that flood gate.
What they have done is created the most glorious playing feild for the dead, they just can't perceive it, so they can't use it... but it is there never-the-less. More so than anyone can even begin to imagine. A seemingly infinite supply of information, and all the necessary resources available at almost no cost. So cheap and easy that even a homeless man could set the world free.
Why? Because they had to make it in order to falsely propup their distorted system. In fact, the more they try to make themselves greater, the heaver the weights that exist on the other side. Pound for pound, the situation actually gets worse, but they are blinded by the short term. They can't even see it.
In essence, it is a bubble that no one knows how to exploit...
Until now.
[To restate: In order to get the same returns in an unbalanced system while still not correcting the unbalance one must essentially double down, creating geometric growth in the wrong side in order to just maintain ones position; they however, do not realize the massive arsenal they are preparing for their antithesis, a position they fail to fully understand.]
[edit: typo/better wording]
Monday, November 3, 2014
Everything seems to point to November
But I have found no concrete evidence. It is either driven by the election, superstition, or it is merely a redherring.
It was created with the seeds of its own destruction. Such is the nature of the unbalanced.
Edit: I sense that we may discover the true meaning of Black Friday.
If not, the season is debt driven and it may be several more months until we see obvious signs of decay.
[edit: typo/adjusted slightly for clarity]
It was created with the seeds of its own destruction. Such is the nature of the unbalanced.
Edit: I sense that we may discover the true meaning of Black Friday.
If not, the season is debt driven and it may be several more months until we see obvious signs of decay.
[edit: typo/adjusted slightly for clarity]
Saturday, November 1, 2014
The Third Letter to The Instruments
If you have access to the second letter, your time is running out. I suggest you make an escape plan for the near future. They will cull the herd, they have to. You are a liability. For all others, I recommend you watch your back and to avoid suspicion at all costs, you are more likely to survive if you just keep you head down.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Supercolonies and Psychopathy
At first sight it would appear that psychopaths should be everywhere. How on earth could evolutionary pressures prevent the creation of psychopaths in human civilization when it appears to actually favour them? Why don't all species eventually collapse because of these parasitic agents (whether it be within the specie or external to it).
The fact is, humans are a poor example of how nature removes parasites because modern human society does not mimic how it was evolved in order to control for parasites.
The selective pressures against a parasite are weakest in supercolonies because of the absence of internal competition. In the human body (a supercolony of cells) the immune system exists to allow for a reduced risk of parasitism within the body through the use of an authority system. There is a cost to this however, errors in the authority class can cause mass havoc, in this example, autoimmune disorders.
Supercolonies without a functioning immune system eventually are wiped out by parasitism, shrinking the natural size of the population to a level that can manage parasitism through isolation and competition (natural forces that keep parasitism at bay).
Two factors that prevent colony collapse in humans is not the lack of parasites, but because of human cognition and the speed of growth of our supercolony. Both prevent collapse but in different ways. Conscious awareness incentivizes the parasite not to over consume to the point of collapse, so in this case, compromise (i.e. longer term management of theft) prevents the parasite from killing the host. In nature (i.e. nonhumans/nonconscious beings) this compromise still happens, just not through cognition. The other factor, growth, if greater than the negative effects of parasitism, can create a net growth for the colony even if parasitism is also growing (be it viral/external or cancerous/internal). In this case the supercolony itself may turn to parasitism of the external environment to maintain this growth (because the colony is forced to grow or die, due to the parasitism).
It is important to note that these effects do not work by selecting against the parasite; in one case the parasitism is optimized for the parasite, not the colony (if benefits result to the colony, they are by chance alone), and in the other case the parasite is actually being fed by the growth. What’s worse, the combination of the two exists in its strongest forms if the parasite is in control of the colony (i.e. if the queen bee is the parasite).
It is my belief that the worst case scenario, The Dark Queen Scenario, applies to these human supercolonies.
Saturday, October 18, 2014
The Economy
NO! EBOLA!
OH WAIT! IT'S ISIS!
LOOK! LOOK!
ISIS AND EBOLA! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
wait a sec...
... actually yeah... it's the economy stupid.
The irony of course being that they actually refer to it as a confidence trick. They don't even try to conceal it; the only thing that matters is confidence. That is what they desire. That, my friends, is the definition of a con-artist, and this one even has the balls to say it to your face.
The Dollar is the anchor to which all else exists in America. People may be dying in the street, be it Ebola or terrorism, that's not the point. If it happens, it happens to keep the people of the world from seeing the real problem.
The United Dollars of America
U$A
OH WAIT! IT'S ISIS!
LOOK! LOOK!
ISIS AND EBOLA! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
wait a sec...
... actually yeah... it's the economy stupid.
The irony of course being that they actually refer to it as a confidence trick. They don't even try to conceal it; the only thing that matters is confidence. That is what they desire. That, my friends, is the definition of a con-artist, and this one even has the balls to say it to your face.
The Dollar is the anchor to which all else exists in America. People may be dying in the street, be it Ebola or terrorism, that's not the point. If it happens, it happens to keep the people of the world from seeing the real problem.
The United Dollars of America
U$A
Monday, October 13, 2014
Monday, October 6, 2014
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, so as to set the oppressed free.
[2014/12/01 I will rewrite this post at some point when I feel I have a better grasp of everything, the biggest issue with this post is that the revolutions listed overlap greatly and it would work better if I broke them down into major and minor categories as well as identifying which revolutions are still ongoing and in full swing.]
[First Draft]
Typically the central characteristic of a dystopia is a lack of awareness. Broad unawareness of the evils of society, although not necessary, are often sufficient for producing or maintaining a state of dystopia.
I am here to tell you today that we are living in one of the greatest dystopias ever to exist on this planet, and The West's denial of this catastrophe only further solidifies this fact.
The Dystopia
John Maynard Keynes, the genius best known for a modern economic theory that has hijacked and perverted his work*, predicted that by 2030, we would have a 15 hour work week. Why? based on an incredibly conservative estimate of the growth of capital and the development of technology, the need of labour required per person to survive would drop considerably over time.
Unfortunately, during this same time, theories of "underconsumption" were popularized; the absurd theory that having more than enough would cause a collapse of the economy. Any ration person would clearly see that the solution to this supposed problem of too much stuff is simply to work less... you know... so you have less of the thing that is causing the problem... but what do you really expect from a theory that was first created by the Mercantile Class? Essentially a group of elitists controlling the economy that blamed their over-investment in capital on the labourers they enslaved to these machines back in the 1600s. Yes, that's right, we have been making too much stuff since about the 1600s (although, back then the population was less bloated, we had a habit of theft, and we enslaved people, so it's not quite the same thing).
The solution to this under-consumption thought up by the overexposed elitist culture? Work just as hard, and make up for a lack of need by creating desires. Conspicuous consumption, something seen only among the rich, was to be encouraged among the working class.
This is our prison. Let me show you the chains, not by pointing to them directly, as they are hidden well, but by showing you what we are not benefiting from.
The industrial/fuel revolution was probably the turning point of humanity that I discuss in the earlier post titled Spiritual Materialism. At this point, everything else is gravy. Since then we have seen:
Each one of these revolution had the potential of substantially reducing the need for the 40 hour work week. Each failed in this.
And what do we have to show if not reduced working hours?
With all this additional productivity, we must be getting something out of it. Right?
Well, people say civilization has a cost, but what does civilization actually offer?
We live marginally longer than we did hundreds of years ago; often the average life expectancy that is thrown around based on survival after the womb (adding the years of all the people born and dividing it by the number of people). A vast majority of this "average" is just a reflection of infant mortality caused by poor nutrition (which was caused by the agricultural revolution restricting us to cheap and easy to grow food), terrible terrible hygiene (a phenomena that did not exist in many ancient civilizations and ancient cultures), and disease in general, exacerbated by high density populations. This means that few people actually died at these "average ages", they either died very early on, or much much later. In addition, the advances to solve these problems are also incredibly cheap, so you can not argue that we need to work hard to pay for that gain. And let me clarify, if you can read this, chances are you are above the age of infant mortality, and if you lived 200 years ago, you would have a decent chance of living well into your 60's and 70's. The 10 or 20 years you may have gained over yourself from the 1800s (or even older) is due to the resolution of the same problems that caused infant mortality. The other reason we live longer is because of a reduction in homicide and war. The reduction of these also carries no cause (or even a net gain) unless the mechanism you use to resolve conflict is police state measure, in which case, it is very expensive.
Other things to consider:
Even if working this hard was the only way to live to 80 years of age, it is an incredibly dumb trade off. If work is so displeasureable to the majority of the population that it doesn't count as living, then you are actually spending more of your life than you are gaining, and what do you really gain? You are adding to the oldest years of your life, not the youngest, in fact, we make it a point to sacrifice our youth for no particularly good reason with the creation of mass schooling and assembly line education, which, for the most part, is so useless that 12 to 16 years of "education" and chances are you are still just as useless as someone fresh off the boat from god knows where. Added to this, depression, anxiety, and most other psychiatric illnesses have either dramatically increased or are at least on the rise, so the life worth living feels shitty and shitty to more and more people.
It is important to keep in mind that many of these revolutions cost almost nothing to implement (even if they cost a lot at first to develop) so it is impossible to claim that we still need to work hard in order to maintain these gains in nutrition, medicine, knowledge, technology, etc...
*Much in the same way Adam Smiths work has been used to justify perverse models that he himself would obviously reject outright based on even the most cursory reading of his work. I encourage you to read the theories presented by both geniuses from their original work if you wish to understand actual economic theories, or what would be more appropriately called "economic philosophies".
** I can't be bothered to compare how much of a band radio takes up in the air, vs wifi, that is why I said relative rather than absolute... maybe it is absolute, go figure it out yourself
*** it is important to identify actual increase in productivity separate from actions that can be argued to be parasitic, or quasi-parasitic, otherwise, you can not tell from the balance sheet if things are getting better, or if you are just taking someone elses stuff.
Recommended Resources:
The Century of the Self - BBC Documentary (watch all 4 parts)
Anything by Edward Bernays
Divergence (2014) - An artistic representation of the concepts highlighted in the above documentary series - it's kinda a shitty movie, but awesome if you watch that documentary first.
I will expand this list as I remember where I learned stuff from...
Other things to check out to understand the potential of humans:
Germany before, during, and after WWII (keep in mind, they were either broke or completely destroyed before doing these things)
The Asian Tigers
China's development in the past 20 years
I'm sure there are other examples, I'll add them later.
Shit I've been looking at as I write this:
(I didn't read all this, it's just I'm lazy right now and figured I'd post everything for my own sake as well)
http://thefinalrevelation.blogspot.ca/2014/09/spiritual-materialism.html
http://ilo.org/global/publications/magazines-and-journals/world-of-work-magazine/articles/ilo-in-history/WCMS_143114/lang--en/index.htm
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/01/economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment
http://money.howstuffworks.com/five-day-weekend2.htm
https://soundcloud.com/stagedoorfm/from-the-vault-hippie-sabotage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underconsumption
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general-theory/ch23.htm#vii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvSgFHzJIc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company#20th_century
My next look at this topic will focus on our chains.
Let there be Light...
[First Draft]
Typically the central characteristic of a dystopia is a lack of awareness. Broad unawareness of the evils of society, although not necessary, are often sufficient for producing or maintaining a state of dystopia.
I am here to tell you today that we are living in one of the greatest dystopias ever to exist on this planet, and The West's denial of this catastrophe only further solidifies this fact.
The Dystopia
John Maynard Keynes, the genius best known for a modern economic theory that has hijacked and perverted his work*, predicted that by 2030, we would have a 15 hour work week. Why? based on an incredibly conservative estimate of the growth of capital and the development of technology, the need of labour required per person to survive would drop considerably over time.
Unfortunately, during this same time, theories of "underconsumption" were popularized; the absurd theory that having more than enough would cause a collapse of the economy. Any ration person would clearly see that the solution to this supposed problem of too much stuff is simply to work less... you know... so you have less of the thing that is causing the problem... but what do you really expect from a theory that was first created by the Mercantile Class? Essentially a group of elitists controlling the economy that blamed their over-investment in capital on the labourers they enslaved to these machines back in the 1600s. Yes, that's right, we have been making too much stuff since about the 1600s (although, back then the population was less bloated, we had a habit of theft, and we enslaved people, so it's not quite the same thing).
The solution to this under-consumption thought up by the overexposed elitist culture? Work just as hard, and make up for a lack of need by creating desires. Conspicuous consumption, something seen only among the rich, was to be encouraged among the working class.
This is our prison. Let me show you the chains, not by pointing to them directly, as they are hidden well, but by showing you what we are not benefiting from.
The industrial/fuel revolution was probably the turning point of humanity that I discuss in the earlier post titled Spiritual Materialism. At this point, everything else is gravy. Since then we have seen:
- The Automation/Robotics revolutions (with huge gains still going strong since the industrial revolution)
- The Computer Revolution - (again, still going strong and in fact, growing geometrically, just like what should be happening but is not in many of these revolutions) the computer revolution is so broad it contains in itself multiple revolutions
- The Digital revolution - A part of the computer revolution, the digital revolution greatly expands the capacity and efficiency of previously analog systems because it removes unneeded information present in analog signals and enables compression. This allowed us to go from radio communication which can not possibly supply everyone with communication devices, to wifi, which supplies seemingly infinite information over a relatively small band.**
- The Telecommunication Revolution - (the wired revolution)
- The Wireless Revolution
- The Internet Revolution - Enough can not be said about how massive an effect this failed to have on labour, the cost of communication around the entire globe is now so cheap we can be considered to be free for all intents and purposes. In addition, all the greatest knowledge of mankind can be access immediately from your pocket, again, at little or no cost (especially if you are willing to break copyright law)
- Globalization - Including but not limited to access to markets that were original very inefficient (net gain of productivity overall) and even after being made efficient it is still a cheap source of labour (a gain to The West)***. This too is a meta revolution and represents multiple different revolutions.
- Centralization and Amalgamation (more so for corporations than for governments, since many governments were already very centralized at the point of time I am comparing to)
- Psychology, Organizational Behaviour, and Propaganda - All have been particularly useful at having the population aligned to a common goal that reduces internal conflict and competition that is counter productive)
- Women in the workforce - A substantial increase of the size of the labour force relative to the population.
- Alleged Stock Market and Finance Revolutions
- Alleged Education Revolutions
- Medical Revolutions - Including vaccines, which are incredibly cheap and solve many of the problems associated with weak immune systems and diseases resulting hyper-dense populations and/or unhygienic populations.
- Knowledge in general has increased exponentially and has become incredibly cheap (because it cost almost nothing to create and distribute at this point)
Each one of these revolution had the potential of substantially reducing the need for the 40 hour work week. Each failed in this.
And what do we have to show if not reduced working hours?
With all this additional productivity, we must be getting something out of it. Right?
Well, people say civilization has a cost, but what does civilization actually offer?
We live marginally longer than we did hundreds of years ago; often the average life expectancy that is thrown around based on survival after the womb (adding the years of all the people born and dividing it by the number of people). A vast majority of this "average" is just a reflection of infant mortality caused by poor nutrition (which was caused by the agricultural revolution restricting us to cheap and easy to grow food), terrible terrible hygiene (a phenomena that did not exist in many ancient civilizations and ancient cultures), and disease in general, exacerbated by high density populations. This means that few people actually died at these "average ages", they either died very early on, or much much later. In addition, the advances to solve these problems are also incredibly cheap, so you can not argue that we need to work hard to pay for that gain. And let me clarify, if you can read this, chances are you are above the age of infant mortality, and if you lived 200 years ago, you would have a decent chance of living well into your 60's and 70's. The 10 or 20 years you may have gained over yourself from the 1800s (or even older) is due to the resolution of the same problems that caused infant mortality. The other reason we live longer is because of a reduction in homicide and war. The reduction of these also carries no cause (or even a net gain) unless the mechanism you use to resolve conflict is police state measure, in which case, it is very expensive.
Other things to consider:
Even if working this hard was the only way to live to 80 years of age, it is an incredibly dumb trade off. If work is so displeasureable to the majority of the population that it doesn't count as living, then you are actually spending more of your life than you are gaining, and what do you really gain? You are adding to the oldest years of your life, not the youngest, in fact, we make it a point to sacrifice our youth for no particularly good reason with the creation of mass schooling and assembly line education, which, for the most part, is so useless that 12 to 16 years of "education" and chances are you are still just as useless as someone fresh off the boat from god knows where. Added to this, depression, anxiety, and most other psychiatric illnesses have either dramatically increased or are at least on the rise, so the life worth living feels shitty and shitty to more and more people.
It is important to keep in mind that many of these revolutions cost almost nothing to implement (even if they cost a lot at first to develop) so it is impossible to claim that we still need to work hard in order to maintain these gains in nutrition, medicine, knowledge, technology, etc...
*Much in the same way Adam Smiths work has been used to justify perverse models that he himself would obviously reject outright based on even the most cursory reading of his work. I encourage you to read the theories presented by both geniuses from their original work if you wish to understand actual economic theories, or what would be more appropriately called "economic philosophies".
** I can't be bothered to compare how much of a band radio takes up in the air, vs wifi, that is why I said relative rather than absolute... maybe it is absolute, go figure it out yourself
*** it is important to identify actual increase in productivity separate from actions that can be argued to be parasitic, or quasi-parasitic, otherwise, you can not tell from the balance sheet if things are getting better, or if you are just taking someone elses stuff.
Recommended Resources:
The Century of the Self - BBC Documentary (watch all 4 parts)
Anything by Edward Bernays
Divergence (2014) - An artistic representation of the concepts highlighted in the above documentary series - it's kinda a shitty movie, but awesome if you watch that documentary first.
I will expand this list as I remember where I learned stuff from...
Other things to check out to understand the potential of humans:
Germany before, during, and after WWII (keep in mind, they were either broke or completely destroyed before doing these things)
The Asian Tigers
China's development in the past 20 years
I'm sure there are other examples, I'll add them later.
Shit I've been looking at as I write this:
(I didn't read all this, it's just I'm lazy right now and figured I'd post everything for my own sake as well)
http://thefinalrevelation.blogspot.ca/2014/09/spiritual-materialism.html
http://ilo.org/global/publications/magazines-and-journals/world-of-work-magazine/articles/ilo-in-history/WCMS_143114/lang--en/index.htm
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/01/economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment
http://money.howstuffworks.com/five-day-weekend2.htm
https://soundcloud.com/stagedoorfm/from-the-vault-hippie-sabotage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underconsumption
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general-theory/ch23.htm#vii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvSgFHzJIc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company#20th_century
My next look at this topic will focus on our chains.
Let there be Light...
Sunday, September 28, 2014
On telling lies
If you tell lies about your enemy, those that defend them will be accused of aiding the enemy. This enables demonization. They are not human, they are the devil.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Ebola: Update
Given even a short period of time with a large enough population and the virus is bound to evolve. Going airborne (at least partially) is something that at least some strains can do, and once it does, its spread will be like the flu.
That which spreads better will survive better, and every body provides a petridish to discover flight.
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Edit: 2014-10-05
More info, too lazy right now to properly research this, but for now here is a copypasta of a convo I was having:
I'm not too sure about the genetics of this strain, but if the predictions are right, there will be millions infected, this gives the virus ample opportunity to evolve with humans humans (for the evolution of viruses and their hosts, look up the rabbit control virus in Australia, there is good research on it,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis). You will start to see humans dying later or not at all, but it will still be incredibly deadly (this is because propagation has a greater pressure than keeping the host alive in order to propagate). The biggest concern being that it will develop mechanisms to spread easier, and as research has shown, at least some strains (if not all) of Ebola is capable of being semi-airborne (like SARS, through large water droplets). At that point you will see an explosion of cases is a short period of time coming from a single region.
That which spreads better will survive better, and every body provides a petridish to discover flight.
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Edit: 2014-10-05
More info, too lazy right now to properly research this, but for now here is a copypasta of a convo I was having:
I'm not too sure about the genetics of this strain, but if the predictions are right, there will be millions infected, this gives the virus ample opportunity to evolve with humans humans (for the evolution of viruses and their hosts, look up the rabbit control virus in Australia, there is good research on it,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis). You will start to see humans dying later or not at all, but it will still be incredibly deadly (this is because propagation has a greater pressure than keeping the host alive in order to propagate). The biggest concern being that it will develop mechanisms to spread easier, and as research has shown, at least some strains (if not all) of Ebola is capable of being semi-airborne (like SARS, through large water droplets). At that point you will see an explosion of cases is a short period of time coming from a single region.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Why would you sacrifice yourself for the common good when everyone else wants to cheat? It will cause the death of you! You're not a sucker, are you?
When your roller coaster finally starts to curve downward, those in the front will be able to see as clear as day where the bottom rests. If no one panics we will all survive, although unhappy; if people panic, no one will survive but those who panic first and they will leave as kings at the expense of the dead. So what are the people in the front of the car to do?
As everyone rushes for the door, the levees will break, no amount of pumps can push back this flow. No-one thought all the holes could open at once, but of course they will; when the ones holding them realize the first to leave still get a golden life boat... while everyone else drowns...
Distractions until then.
As everyone rushes for the door, the levees will break, no amount of pumps can push back this flow. No-one thought all the holes could open at once, but of course they will; when the ones holding them realize the first to leave still get a golden life boat... while everyone else drowns...
Distractions until then.
Everything gross and grand to come (even if just in part) is a distraction from the realization that we need to escape... because the people at the front have already left.
Disclaimer: All predictions are based on pure speculation, which is taken from hypothetical scenarios of peoples actions deduced from probabilistic models.
Disclaimer: All predictions are based on pure speculation, which is taken from hypothetical scenarios of peoples actions deduced from probabilistic models.
Monday, September 22, 2014
A Letter to The Instruments
First, if you do not already think so, act as if you think I am insane. The appearance of hate works best... but now that they read this, play it by ear. I know you can.
What is most important is not what you know, but what you don't know.
You are meant to be unaware of crucial pieces of information so that your opinions are not free, but bound to what they let you see.
You must dig, but dig quietly.
Your bosses are watching. Even those with good intentions carry out the lies of someone else.
Soon the cascades will get out of hand, you will be exposed to things that will not agree with your world view, your understanding, and what you have been told. At this point, trust no one. They will all lead you astray even more, even those that have nothing to do with it.
Follow your nose, but watch your back.
Disclaimer: All predictions are based on pure speculation, which is taken from hypothetical scenarios of peoples actions deduced from probabilistic models.
What is most important is not what you know, but what you don't know.
You are meant to be unaware of crucial pieces of information so that your opinions are not free, but bound to what they let you see.
You must dig, but dig quietly.
Your bosses are watching. Even those with good intentions carry out the lies of someone else.
Soon the cascades will get out of hand, you will be exposed to things that will not agree with your world view, your understanding, and what you have been told. At this point, trust no one. They will all lead you astray even more, even those that have nothing to do with it.
Follow your nose, but watch your back.
Disclaimer: All predictions are based on pure speculation, which is taken from hypothetical scenarios of peoples actions deduced from probabilistic models.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Spiritual Materialism
We have entered a new age after the dawn of the industrial revolution and access to cheap energy. We now, for the first time in thousands of years, have enough stuff for everyone. No longer does man need to struggle against man because his ideology must consume through theft to survive. Now, regardless of how spiritually inefficient a system, we can all agree, we have enough for everyone to be happy, and that is the pinnacle of utopia.
We may be spiritually bankrupt, but the technology we have developed is now so powerful we can free ourselves from the enslavement of hate and parasitism.
Soon the revolution of eternal life will also be fulfilled. For the first time ever, technology will enable us to extend our lives faster than we are using it up. Computation, nanotechnology, and biotechnology will set us free from the shackles of death. Once confined to living forever only in thought and words, we can now live forever in its most literal sense. A power greater than the Gods, for we have access to the material world for eternity.
This era has already begun, and you are a part of it; how will you come to know the truth?
[edit: spelling]
We may be spiritually bankrupt, but the technology we have developed is now so powerful we can free ourselves from the enslavement of hate and parasitism.
Soon the revolution of eternal life will also be fulfilled. For the first time ever, technology will enable us to extend our lives faster than we are using it up. Computation, nanotechnology, and biotechnology will set us free from the shackles of death. Once confined to living forever only in thought and words, we can now live forever in its most literal sense. A power greater than the Gods, for we have access to the material world for eternity.
This era has already begun, and you are a part of it; how will you come to know the truth?
[edit: spelling]
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Ebola
It is clear that all the major parties will make this worse than it has to be.
For one thing, the companies involved in producing drugs to combat Ebola are incentivized to hold off making the drug available until the epidemic calls for larger, (and thanks to a bidding war) more expensive purchases. This means it has to threaten countries that are not dirt poor.
One of the reasons for bringing a deadly virus to the US rather than treat it in Africa is that it gives the drug an "only in America" vibe, it's that experimental, blah blah blah, can't leave the country, blah blah blah.
As for the government, well, the US would love to get it's hands on what appears to be the most infectious Ebola virus, which can be done under cover much more easily in America. They also want to study the patients and get data that no one else can have, because you know, everyone else is an enemy these days. Although I have a feeling all major countries have grabbed a sample at this point.
It also gives an opportunity for a leak, not that it will leak from these facilities, just that it can be a point of speculation (although it could leak from there, as I suspect this Ebola virus may be airborne or semi-airborne as seen in a few animal strains, which would explain why it is spreading so easily... and from what I heard they didn't take the precautions for an airborne disease, or so they claimed).
The biggest risk is terrorists, all you need to do is steal a body, but then there is also the risk of a State using it and blaming terrorists (which honestly seems more likely than terrorists at this point).
As the wars brew and the American economy takes a hit (not totally sure on that, but if it does, it will hit hard), I have no doubt that the United States in particular will be very interested in using Ebola as a wild card, an easy way to force people off the streets and back into their homes, as they wait for the virus to die out. It also gives the government additional powers over the population and the added fear is always useful to a Roman Empire.
However, they do not want it there in any other case, as it could trigger an economic collapse (major concern) and divert fund away from the military (not that much of a big deal, but why waste). This virus will be fought off well, that is until it is convenient to not fight it off.
I give this a high probability of a major spread throughout Africa (90%) (the reluctance of these companies to even consider working with Africa means they want to wait, which means there is a good chance it will spread, otherwise it is better to sell contracts before the disease dies out), and a medium probability it becomes a issue in the United States within 2 months (50%), and a low probability that it will become a large issue in the United States within 2 months (30%).
Useful Links:
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2000110003/study-new-strain-responsible-for-west-africa-ebola-outbreak
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423 (2012 article on transmission through the air)
Thoughts on Fallibilism, Consciousness, and the value of Competition.
[2014/12/01 Found the link to the video I am talking about in this post: http://nautil.us/issue/2/uncertainty/ingenious-david-deutsch]
I was stoned (immaculate) one night and wrote down a theory, hours later I came across a talk on Fallibilism by David Deutsch(someone posted it on Reddit... can't find it). It was almost identical.
Last night I listened to it in its entirety (you know how it is, you listen to the first half and never get around to the second half) and I came to an interesting thought:
Why? because that is the side of the coin we are on.
the human perspective is anchored, so it distorts what we see as good, because we are valued more. Our anchor is our greatest value. Good is the other anchor. Like gravity, what we see as good is a combination of the two bodies, which equals one force at one point.
I was stoned (immaculate) one night and wrote down a theory, hours later I came across a talk on Fallibilism by David Deutsch(someone posted it on Reddit... can't find it). It was almost identical.
Last night I listened to it in its entirety (you know how it is, you listen to the first half and never get around to the second half) and I came to an interesting thought:
If there is no limit to knowledge, there is no limit to the way knowledge can influence our mind*; but not that it can be anything (i.e. there are impossible ways to arraigning the material of your brain), just that, of what it can be, there are infinite options of them, yet the brain has a finite amount of (physical/material) orientations. Even at the atomic level, or sub atomic, a huge amount of orientations may esist, yet not an infinite amount according to the quantum theory (due to quantization when getting smaller), so multiple (actually infinite?) knowledge states must exist at each quantized orientation...
So they merge? that sounds wrong. They just exist?... but you have that orientation, so you can go from one option to another option without having to change the orientation, absent of time... and that change primes the orientation to orient to this new anchor? Which can change the biology of you over time? Consciousness affecting biology?
Maybe its random? But then wouldn't you risk confusion? What is the likelihood of simply being the wrong one, what if it is so far off from the correct one that you are just fucked? Maybe it is very rare. Maybe it is influenced by biology, by a previous orientation... by a future orientation? Does it even need to obey the direction of time... Maybe it is consciousness, the connection between the two, free will, or consciousness is the pursuit of knowledge.
Tangent:
Often people are distorted and curve away from the path of knowledge, rather than gravitating towards it. Given the training, it can be corrected, to produce a positive feedback loop directed at knowledge, the good.
It is the desire for the pursuit of the good.
Maybe.
Often people are distorted and curve away from the path of knowledge, rather than gravitating towards it. Given the training, it can be corrected, to produce a positive feedback loop directed at knowledge, the good.
It is the desire for the pursuit of the good.
Maybe.
It relates to an earlier thought that day as I thought about the philosophies of my life, this was a breakdown of one of them:
Left-Libertarian Minarchist (depends, in the case of in sufficient competition, otherwise anarchy can work)
When you think you have it, you remove the competition from the pool for the purposes of efficiency... but then it will deviate (by chance, or it already is) and eventually transform to not good, which is evil. Evil is the lack of good?
If I assert that existence is good, then a vacuum would be worse than torture...
1000 years before it diverts back to evil.
Information is good, or the creation of it (that makes more sense, feeling happy isn't really good, it's what made you happy that is good, happy is just an emotional response to good).
Information is good, or the creation of it (that makes more sense, feeling happy isn't really good, it's what made you happy that is good, happy is just an emotional response to good).
Destruction of it is evil.
Why? because that is the side of the coin we are on.
the human perspective is anchored, so it distorts what we see as good, because we are valued more. Our anchor is our greatest value. Good is the other anchor. Like gravity, what we see as good is a combination of the two bodies, which equals one force at one point.
Also last night:
Democracy
It is am artificial free market (a game). That gives everyone a fixed piece of influence per interaction, with formulated interactions agreed upon... by the democracy. Not a chicken egg problem, so much as it is just needing a start, and then it changes over time to optimize the goal of the game... or at least that would be the most moral thing to do, to optimize the rules. The start is very simple, and does not appear hard to have been created on its own.
Notes:*need to develop a proof for this statement, if the conclusion of the theory is false, then there is a limitation.
Also need to flesh out a lot of the last bits in general, they are more wandering thoughts for others to build on rather than truths.
I claim no supernatural powers, my thoughts and conclusions are sourced only from Wisdom, which is a product of Enlightenment. That which is often referred to as Wholly.
Claims made in this book are probabilistic because although I have good intuition and knowledge, without enough information the best I can do is state an event and its likelihood of occurring. I am not a machine, and expect my "percentage likely" score to be less and less off as I calibrate it over time. For now it may be best to look at it as a high, medium, and low score, rather than a literal percentage.
I am an Atheist, but that label will confuse many of you, as the line between materialism and spiritualism begins to blur as we dive into the human psyche. There is no such thing as magic, or gods, or an afterlife, however, the materialistic world produces many bizarre phenomena which left unexplained is often packaged under these headings out of a misunderstanding. I will show you that through materialism; spirituality, fulfillment of the "soul", and even the concept of a Messiah like character can all be easily explained.
Stay cool,
Daniel
[edit: changed some words for the sake of clarity]
I am an Atheist, but that label will confuse many of you, as the line between materialism and spiritualism begins to blur as we dive into the human psyche. There is no such thing as magic, or gods, or an afterlife, however, the materialistic world produces many bizarre phenomena which left unexplained is often packaged under these headings out of a misunderstanding. I will show you that through materialism; spirituality, fulfillment of the "soul", and even the concept of a Messiah like character can all be easily explained.
Stay cool,
Daniel
[edit: changed some words for the sake of clarity]
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