God wills and I obey.
2 Oct 2006
Andre Willers.
A meme-set to live by .
God wills and I obey.
1.God wills and I want that I enhance the positive feedback of every person interacting with me .
2. God wills and I want that every interaction with another person enhances my feedback .
3. God wills and I want not to permanently hurt another self-aware entity .
4. God wills and I want not to permanently hurt myself.
5. God wills this and I obey .
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“We are property.” Charles Fort
“We are the property of the future.” Neo-Fortean.
Youth today increasingly cannot compete with their elders .
Like other systems in irrational rebellion (like fundamentalist religions) , they sense that not only are they being indulgently maintained , but that they will never allowed to exercise their destructive impulses on others . This limitation on their freedom by those more advanced they call “being property of the future” .
Too bad.
How it happened:
It used to be that the elders got older , ossified mentally and eventually died .
Today , as certain elder groups slide faster into the singularity than the rest , they grow increasingly competent and control increasingly large slices of resources.
They have access to expensive new technologies of life-extension and youth extension . These groups are pulling away from any teenagers faster than the youths can possibly overhaul .
Paradigm shifts ? Disasters ? They adapt faster .Ditto new technologies .
At a certain point in this process , speciation occurs .
A new class arises , using biotech and augmentations .
This is a statistical process that occurs long before speciation . In a sense it has always been with us (Marx) , but here the old guard doesn’t vanish in a welter of blood and incompetence . The inverse happens.
During bio-augmentation the temptation to make fertility dependant on the parent’s augmentation will be irresistible (and simple : epigenetic apoptosis of female ovum : there are existing mechanisms in mammals. ) . The result will be multiple new species of Homo (according to the definition of natural interfertility .)
We are at the beginning of that point now .
The logical end is a domestication of Homo Saps (refer to Draka model of SM Stirling) .
The saving grace here is that it is happening very quickly .
Elements of the society will be very deep into the singularity , some less deep , etc , in a discontinuous spectrum .
The initial competitive advantage of the groups further into the singularity than others is rationality . The obvious rebellion against that is irrationality (eg fundamentalist Christian , fundamentalist Muslim , Columbine shootings , etc ) . This is analogue to teenage rebellion . The way the Western meme-system has been handling these rebellions has been the parental-toughlove . Prop them up with one hand and beat sense into them with the other hand .
But on the third hand : there is another way :
Look at Rationality :
For identifiable , delineated things:
At the beginning of this process , rationality ( meaning : repeat this on demand with a small margin of error) is the competitive advantage . (Newtonian systems) .
Manipulating the “small margin of error” gives us quantum systems .
Paradox : a paradox generates a new dimension (eg A and B are 10 cm apart on dimension AB , but C is 7cm from A and 7 cm from B . Thus C is in another dimension from AB dimension .)
Irrationality :
Keep in mind Russell’s proof that A and not-A is not the Universum . We can use paradox ( by using rational processes as per above definition) to generate repetitive on demand(within chosen error margins) effects .
This is a technology of those deep into the singularity .
Therefore , irrational systems will be one tool of those deep in the singularity .
Therefore , any irrational rebellion is doomed to fail .
In these terms , the Nazis were unsuccessful irrational rebels . Later systems of irrational rebellion are being crushed or subsumed .
Subsumed is the Word. (Resistence is futile , Kirk)
No need to crush or kill . Absorb . This has been done (eg Christian conversions of Vikings , Japan , etc) Interestingly enough , large portions of the present western belief-systems are close to that of the Vikings . Gotterdammerung without the gods . Even bleaker than the original . With meme-antibodies to historic religions . But a virgin field to a tailored meme-religion .
Looking at this objectively , I have to come to the conclusion that we are much deeper into singularity than I originally thought . This means , in real measurable terms , that the degrees of freedom of the baddies have decreased . (eg Goring , collapse of USSR , Milosovic in court) . The degree of limitation is seen by baddies all over as limitation of their freedom , using the meme “Give me freedom or give me death”.
From the historical data ,
Freedom does not include the freedom to willingly permanently hurt another self-aware entity .
Can we see this as a command? Yes , since the progression above goes into the singularity (ie this mindset will win) . Thus “You will” is the correct appellation .
“You will” is then synonymous with “God wants” .
We also want a positive approach (not a set of “thou shalt nots” )
From the observed interactions of the memes , we can make an attempt at a meme-set:
God wills and I obey.
1.God wills and I want that I enhance the positive feedback of every person interacting with me .
2. God wills and I want that every interaction with another person enhances my feedback .
3. God wills and I want not to permanently hurt another self-aware entity .
4. God wills and I want not to permanently hurt myself.
5. God wills this and I obey .
If you have problems with this meme-set , let me know .
Andre Willers