I first started posting to ILP in 2005 (way back in the halycon days of the detrop/Dunamis dialectic).
In the video below, I set out a couple of axioms that hopefully will allow us to start the process of rebooting our civil society.
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Modern techno-industrial civilization has hit its limits to growth and can now expect an extended downward phase until a new socio-political equilibrium has been reached based on a combination of population levels and living standards that can be supported by the constraints of the ecosystem.
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Our universe can best be represented by something of a “big round guitar”. The “strings” will vibrate in the form of 3D oscillators that look like the so-called electron clouds (1s, 2p, 3d, 4f, etc) that can be found in any undergraduate chemistry textbook, and must each conform to a hyperspherical universe. Since these are just waveforms that are piled atop each other, the superaddition principle can be used, and we can then apply a constraint of most perfect radial symmetry onto the composite universal waveform. Different shapes, frequencies and maximum oscillatory amplitudes will correspond to the different classes of elements of the universe: 1) gravity fields (like earth’s), 2) chemical elements (like hydrogen), and 3) point-like particles (like electrons).
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2BATxg7Aoo[/youtube]
About me: I’ve been trying to inspire interesting discussions on college campuses for nearly 20 years. In 2011, I began to get recognition on the UCLA campus when I started holding peace signs (googling “the peace guy” should give you results about me). Then I came back to the city where I had been a college student in the early 90’s. The student newspaper has written about me quite a few times, including a couple of major profiles.
In mid-2020, the social media channel “All Gas No Breaks” did a profile on me which has gotten millions of views. Very strangely, however, my face was apparently used to create a 1-second deep-fake video clip (at 1:02) of a wild green-haired person at the 2019 Burning Man festival. A snapshot from this clip is used as the avatar for the youtube video, shown below. In the clip is a frame with the guy holding a peace sign. This video was uploaded nearly a year before the interviewer (Andrew Callaghan) supposedly found out about me by hanging out in my town (Ethan Klein asked Andrew on the h3 podcast point-blank about how he found me). My claim is that he already knew about me due to all my public shenanigans beginning in 2011, and that I am consequently a much bigger deal than simply being a random interviewee would indicate.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=954nTD-heG4[/youtube]
I believe that all of the above factors give me the ability to make a rightful claim as regards starting up some kind of movement to reboot our deeply unsustainable mode of human coexistence.