A future post about how the value of information degrades through selection, Asimovish, that is that they told you you were, or would be, better off if you supported the effort, then Orwellian, everything they said was thought to be truth because it reflected exactly the beliefs one had sought/searched to be assured of. Having… Continue reading Chatbots
Tag: technology
Asset inflation
Asset inflation has recently been repeated all over the world since the US Fed and other banks started printing money in 2008-9, nor is this a new problem but rather inherent to the private property paradigm. The simple truth within the paradigm is that policies with significant social or environmental value will not be supported… Continue reading Asset inflation
Does everybody know?
Everybody knows the scene is deadBut there's gonna be a meter on your bedThat will discloseWhat everybody knows We can see it coming, feel it working, approve our genius in harnessing it to do work, especially now as the cold northern winter or the (increasingly) warm southern summer approaches. In our general theory of evolution,… Continue reading Does everybody know?
With(out) power
The digital transformation No power No music No social network No money No food Just in time infrastructure Uses energy to arrive just in time to keep us alive I made a hard copy of my wife and daughter just in case the power goes out
Life
straight to the pointy end, life is planetary. The millennial aims to consume it, and replace the real with a digital representation, Which reality is within our grasp. We've talked about value, of the mercentalisation of everything. Use the biotope to create waste to destroy habitat and ecology, in the hope of more success. Discussions… Continue reading Life
Value III
I am not so sure Sonny, most business models disregard the energetic input available to reproduce cyberspace and consumption. Advertising simply uses natural resources to promote the further use of natural resources. If natural resources are limited, and I can assure you they are, then the business model actually has no social or environmental value.… Continue reading Value III
Replacement
By 2030 the EU aims to generate 27% of its energy from renewable sources. However, the renewable-energy sector in Europe is heavily reliant on hydrocarbons for the supply of raw materials critical for the development of technology such as solar cells and wind turbines. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/chinese_supply_critical_raw_materials_pose_long_term_risks_european_wind_solar_industries_494na1_en.pdf
Recycling
Know that nothing is everything that nothing is Potential is entropic decreasing the potential to do the same thing twice creates a new potential the image we have of, shadows on a wall is the potential of a thing if it were a one shot deal Nothing would be everything Forever … Continue reading Recycling
My ipadery
Was a tree hell, was a few hundred thousand trees old as heck and withered into coal or some other fossil fuel equally able to power the economies that dig it up. To create technology in a perfect market substitution is infinite and technology will create itself. through entropy
Ceteris Paribus 