Season 3
What's next
The Bioble
Cap Capitalism
Problem Solving
The natives are restless.
Season 4
Don't start The Professional Revolution without me
Buyer's Remorse
The 10 Commandments
Season 5
A Testable Hypothesis
Only one month until the election that will change the trajectory of America. And the only real question is which is more important, money or people?
I'm still writing but I think I have the good book. The Bioble is a holy book in the Evolving Church of Science. It settles the age-old chicken and egg question. It gives some rules to live by based on ethics from a scientific perspective of life. The evolutionary transitions of life provide guideposts for how we could behave in a global civilization of humans.
Now is the time to appreciate that science reveals limits. There is only so much matter and energy that can flow through a given ecosystem. Human civilizations depend on the ecosystem, no matter how artificially we alter our environments. That's the problem with religious belief systems - they reinforce the idea of infinity. If you have those magical thoughts, you can ignore rational discourse that tries to tell you about reality as measured by science. When you join the Church of Science and understand we need limits, we can finally reasonably discuss limiting capitalism. Not throwing it out, don't scream 'socialism' or 'communism'. I'm just saying we got rid of monarchs and dictators in the 20th century so we could have democracy. Now we have to limit the robber barons from stepping into those shoes, and let the economy work on smaller scales. Give me an ethical rationale as to why anyone is worth more than $10 million dollars a year while we have poverty, crime and all the social ills of the current era. Cap capitalism now.
A good scientific theory should be able to make accurate predictions. Can the Evolving Church of Science use Probabilistic Ethics to solve problems? I think it can. We can build from the ground up, work with each other when we share a belief system and fix things. Hopefully this will help get us started.
The last podcast before the 2024 US election. I can't wait to see what happens. Things seem a little stressed in my neck of the woods. But I live in 'MAGA' country, and the locals are acting like they're worried. So, that's a good thing from my perspective. Maybe we'll take a step back toward a more reasonable civilization. We will see....
Well, I was hoping that it wouldn't happen, but it did. A human who is most qualified to be the leader of the Thieves Guild has been elected, again. If one is a mature responsible adult, often referred to as a professional, I can only imagine you are as stunned as I. During this phase of human civilization, the Colonial Era, we are still allowing the misconception to be spread through our social messaging that there shouldn't be any limits. We should keep pushing for what we want, and if something breaks along the way we will deal with it then. This allows the economy to ultimately drive all of our decisions. But a professional gets the job done, within whatever limits there are. Because reality gives us limits, and professionals deal with reality.
Well, it's done. All sales are final. We made the decision in America to trust the orange parasite to lead us to a promised land. I plan to try to watch and report on as much as I can stomach. America altered its evolutionary path, and is now going toward a less perfect union in my humble opinion.
Probabilistic Ethics, that's the ticket. I have a plan...
I don't know if it happens to others, but when I hear certain terms mangled in usage by non-professionals, it bothers me. One of the things that happens in any professional field is certain words are invested with specific meanings. Words capture ideas, which is mental information in the purest form. Since I've been trying to build a model for artificial selection based on mental information, it's important to clarify terms. A hypothesis, in science, has a very specific definition. A testable hypothesis is the only pathway to increasing the amount of knowledge from science. Knowledge is what we need more of in order to control artificial selection. The current upcoming reign of Donald I in Amerika will be an interesting test of one hypothesis. What will happen when the regulations on a capitalist economy are lowered within a democratic society? As opposed to having ideas generated from belief in democracy, the main ethical code for the next four years (hopefully it will only be 4...) will be to grab as much as you can. How will that turn out?
When you're hungry, it's harder to make decisions. Judges assign longer sentences before lunch than they do after lunch. Humans build civilization to stabilize life, we try to minimize hungers and biological impulses. We try to make better decisions to have more resources, and stabilize our lives. But that's not what we have in America. We have decided on chaotic rules based on unregulated capitalism and mystical beliefs. We select for social patterns that isolate people and encourage greed and envy. We'll all get to see how that plays out starting Jan. 20th of next year.