Arminius wrote:So the noise can't disappear and has a positive and negative charge, personally or socially said: a positive and negative character.
Arminius wrote:So one of the conclusions of this is that for you the probability that the machines will eliminate all humans is higher than for me.
Arminius wrote:What could humans or machines do in order to prevent such a „black hole“?
James S Saint wrote:Arminius wrote:What could humans or machines do in order to prevent such a „black hole“?
There are many things that Man could do, but won't. Man cannot do what Man will not do. That is what makes his fate so certain.
What must be done is simply to distribute the wealth that is life such that the density can never reach a maximum. The separation must be maintained by natural means. In the past that has been done by land, language, culture, and ontology, the very things that Globalism seeks to unite and homogenize into a great glob. What keeps life safe and continuing is its disbursement. But even that has a balance. Rather than a great single particle, there must be very many autonomous particles merely networked together to share wisdom, not obedience. And to keep them separate, he must learn wisdom. The human body does not simply grow ever larger, but disperses into many relatively autonomous bodies that share their wisdom.
When a man finally learns of the exact make of life, he no longer seeks for ever more and more, but seeks only precise balance, never actually too much nor too little, yet carefully swaying between a little more and a little less so as to keep track of the varying limits. Having ten wives, a wise man would most probably give up eight and possibly all of them, but in the right way. Having millions of dollars, a wise man would give up most of it, and in the right way. But until he learns of the make of life, he hasn't any idea what to give up, how much, nor of the right way to give.
So homosapian would have to learn of the actual make of life and then very precisely distribute the wealth that is life accordingly, something that machines can be made capable of doing far more precisely than humans. Machines have a place with homosapian. Machines properly designed and used enhance life where ever they are. Humans properly taught enhance life where ever they are as well. Even animals recognize that in humans. There is no more to be gained than that.
But Man cannot do what Man will not do.
James S Saint wrote:Well, I don't know what you want to call them, but basically the continents (North America, Africa, Asia, Europe,...) become the primary separation between centers (which I would call "nations") with "provinces" within each. It is more like a polyparticle ("weak force" holding the empire together).
And SAM doesn't become a significant part of anything until the very end of the blind lusting. SAM IS the end of the blind lusting and the dissolution of the last empire.
Arminius wrote:What could humans or machines do in order to prevent such a „black hole“?
James S. Saint wrote:There are many things that Man could do, but won't. Man cannot do what Man will not do. That is what makes his fate so certain. .... Man cannot do what Man will not do.
Arminius wrote:So let me come back to my question.Arminius wrote:What could humans or machines do in order to prevent such a „black hole“?
Because your answer was:James S. Saint wrote:There are many things that Man could do, but won't. Man cannot do what Man will not do. That is what makes his fate so certain. .... Man cannot do what Man will not do.
If "his fate" is really "so certain", why should we then form a "communal particle" or a "SAM" ("Social Anentropic Molecule") corporation?, why should we then defend ourselves against the globalists?, and whys hould we then defend ourselves against the machines?
James S Saint wrote:Well, imagine that you teleported back in time to pre-Roman Empire days. You know what is going to take place, an empire is going to form. And you know that it is going to get nasty, corrupt, and fall. Are you just going to throw up your hands and say, "Oh well, nothing I can do about it" and roll over and die? Or are you going to prepare for it in the best way you can at the time? Take care of at least yourself?
You know that an empire is forming (actually already has). You know that it is going to be pretty nasty, far more than it is. And you can bet that it is going to fall. And since you know it is going to fall, why not prepare for what it is going to fall toward, SAM.
Arminius wrote:That's right. So the human "fate" was not very much seriously meant by you (I took you at your word!), wasn't it? You said: "Man cannot do what Man will not do. That is what makes his fate so certain." Who is "Man" in that sentence? If "Man" means "all human beings" in that sentence, then we would have no chance to change anything, and if we have no chance to change anything, then it would be also useless to prepare for what e.g. that empire "is going to fall toward, SAM".
James S Saint wrote:Don't confuse "Man" (Mankind as a whole) with "a man" nor with "every man". Just because Man forms into an empire, doesn't mean that every single man is an imperialist.
If your goal is to alter Man, you have some extremely powerful competition who won't even let you know of their goals and will be very presumptuous about, and condemning of, yours. Altering Man is a monumental task, very unlikely to succeed or change hardly anything. Thus Man has a relatively fixed fate. But an individual man, having more influence over his own life, can alter his own fate through devoted decisions.
And then by someone, anyone, displaying the effectiveness of SAM when the time is finally right (whenever that is), Man as a whole will catch onto the idea sooner and if Man is in sufficient control of most men (being dictatorially imperialistic), the idea of SAM will very quickly become the fate of Man.
James S Saint wrote:The only question is whether Man will be made of homosapian-humans, transhuman-humans, cyborg-humans, or machine-humans at that time.
Arminius wrote:But again:
Please answer my question I "once" asked you:
Arminius wrote:If "his fate" is really "so certain", why should we then form a "communal particle" or a "SAM" ("Social Anentropic Molecule") corporation?
Arminius wrote:Machines decide according to rational aspects, and rational decisions are not always bad. But if the machines say the humans are too costly, too expensive, and too dangerous, too rebellious, then that's just bad (without exception!) for the humans.
Arminius wrote:What about the possibility that the globalists, or the machines, or both together will bring such a situation to the people of the whole globe as it was brought by Augustus to the people of Rome ("Pax Augusta" / "Pax Romana") ?
This "Pax Augusta" ("Pax Romana") for the whole globe or for the whole solar system? With such Glozis as rulers? And/or with such machines we have already described as the probable rulers of the world in the future?
Neil Blomkamp’s new movie Elysium succeeds in drawing a sensually accurate and gritty picture of an all too plausible future. The future Elysium depicts is in-fact a near perfect extrapolation of our present social dynamic on the planet: those with means sequester themselves and perpetuate their fortunes at any cost; those without suffer under the brute, impersonal and robotic system of government that the rich have enforced. The two social classes are an atmosphere and the entire weight of High Earth Orbit apart from one another.
Arminius wrote:Should I watch the film "Elysium", James?
Tipping Point
What’s striking is the carelessly discarded human potential on Earth. Max (Matt Damon) lives in the sprawling slum of Los Angeles 2154. His friends tease him because he has a job, making explicit the fact suggested by the children and goats milling about the scene, most people on Earth DON’T have a job. Why does this sound strikingly like the latest US job figures? While roughly 162,000 new jobs were added to the US economy in July, the majority were minimum wage positions. That’s not growing the economy, it’s growing the slave class.
As in Elysium, the rich and powerful in this country have abdicated all responsibility for cultivating an educated, engaged and healthy workforce. In doing so they’ve failed to even imagine the paradise that could be created through an inclusive society where everyone produces. Greed is NOT good. Believing in this profits above people mentality is a long-term recipe for poverty of body as well as mind. Our country cannot succeed if we continue to uphold this barbarism as our golden calf. (And to the faithful, do you really think Jesus went around telling people “greed is good”? I was raised to believe the opposite).
And yet, this problem will require reason as well as morality to vanquish. If Corporations are measured by their profits not their employment numbers, it’s because of the system we’ve created. As an employer, I can tell you it’s damn hard to hire someone these days. First off, it is ridiculously difficult to find young people coming out of college with any employable skills. Second, it is a financial and bureaucratic nightmare to employ them. There is no doubt that the government makes it harder for me to employ people, not easier.
All we really need to do is rewrite the tax code. Shouldn’t I be getting tax breaks when I employ people instead of paying more in taxes??? Heck, given that the real cost of not employing someone is all the money they draw from the social safety net – shouldn’t the government be willing to pay me up to 50% of that person’s safety net costs for employing him? And if I now have incentive to hire new people, I also have an incentive to make sure they are smart capable people – corporations could begin to take a more active roll in developing talent while the new workforce is still being cultivated in schools.
The question is, should we wait for the 1% to figure this out? Or do we have moral obligation as the 99% to help ourselves? In Elysium’s ending the world’s corrupt morals are righted by rebooting the software. Everyone on Earth is once again recognized as a citizen. It drew a tear from my eye to see humanity re-oriented towards a greater recognition of, and caring for all the beautiful individuals that make up the whole. In the movie, this system reboot takes just a few seconds. In reality, it will take longer to reboot (or as of 2013 build) an all inclusive system of just and digital government. It will take not just one act of rock em sock em bravery, but many repeated acts of sacrifice and perseverance. But in the end, it is we, the 99% that control our destiny. It is our sense of civic-morality that can reboot the system.
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