Competition vs. Cooperation

Competition breeds a better product, especially in a free market, where resources are plentiful. This takes more time, however.

Cooperation robs the individual of the Tony Starck-Effect, but the achievments can be far greater in a shorter period.

I think, for the purposes of discovery, cooperation is the best method. For the egomaniac, competition is the only option. This is why many, if not most egomaniacs fail.

- Posted using my iPhone

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I keep getting older. But the world stays the same age.

A personal reaction to uncovering a new fact

For my first year after leaving York I lived in a neighborhood in East York, which is a slice of Toronto between the central city and Scarborough.
There was a park there, a park currently housing the Ontario Science Center.


This is the Earnest Thompson Seton park.

Why do I think this is personal? Because I know who this man is. This is the other side to the story of: The origin of Scouting. And I believe that modern Scouting has matured into E.T. Seton's image, rather than what Powell had planned.

Seton was a naturalist who experienced violence in his youth, and therefore there is a very strong anti-violence characteristic in his actions.

Powell was a man of war. He was a general, and used his 'Boy Scouts' for less dangerous missions during battles.

Can you spot the humanist? Is it difficult?

The reason I brought it up is because I respect Seton's approach and the value of understanding sustenance and resources, and also because the value of understanding these things now very much extends into a purely technological world view.

We can realize this by understanding:
a) how tech is involved in resource management (on global scales, and just some directions its going in.
b) understanding energy use and the mantra for renewable orbital solar systems.
c) being aware of what is required for a single human to survive.
d) how it is required for humanity to change is some profound way to survive the next century.

Technology is the basis for all growth in the modern world.
A new form of naturalistic thinking, the thinking of E.T., is emerging. A naturalist who understands the technological relationship as natural and inescapable. If we stop denying simple things like we need transportation and efficient farming, etc, then we can be better equipped to solve the problem with new ways of thinking. Ways that don't stigmatize modern culture the way PETA and others do.

A new form of education can be thought of. As naturalist and Scouting were crucial at the turn of the last century, teaching children of this era of the proper view of technology will eventually benefit.
Thus the Techno-Scout has been born. And I am their Powell.

Brain Activity

"We have more in common with each other than we will have in common with our future-selves".

About a years worth of drafts...

Ok, so this is another big update, like the one below.
I am going to take from the 10-11 updates - which were never published - a few ideas and express them here.

1) Germany, The Singularity and WWII.
I am not a historical scholar, but I do tend to befriend people who are because of our mutual interest in a very, very militant transhumanist named Adolf Hitler. The connections made in this post were along the lines of Hilter being motivated the same way I and other H+ thinkers are motivated - a new world which belonged to something more than human. The argument was outlined to create distinct parallels between Kurzweil's masterpiece The Singularity is Near. The chapter I focused on is titled 'the promise and peril of GNR'.
Genetics, Nanotech, and Robotics.
If these are the ingrediants for a new world order circa 2009 than the German regime of the 30's and 40's was quite ahead of the curve. The robotics applications were contracted to IBM. One of the biggest information-based contracts of the time. Nanotech was in the shadows mostly, but you could go so far to say that tattoos are in some form nanotech related. Especially when you consider the logistics of tattooing countries of people.
And lastly, Hilter was a supporter of genetic superiority through misguided racial means.
That's that argument, there may be some more to study. We can learn alot from the past.*

2) TV is dead...
and online distribution is finally picking up speed now that bandwidth is cheap. This means the service provider model will change, and eventually if more networks decide to produce online media, net neutrality could again be an issue.
imagine though all that revenue dissapearing from all these service providers. Most, however (Shaw, ATT, Rogers) all provide internet service as well. But when talent like Will Farell and Danny McBride create enough buzz online only for HBO to renew Eastbound and Down for a second season... well no one in their right mind could dispute that's progress.

3) Microsoft Photosynth
Is a pioneer in holographic technology circa the 2020's.
It's a system that demonstrates what will be capable when we've made a little bit more progress with shrinking the transistor. Eventually a system of location aware cameras of incredibly high sensor density could capture an entire event in 3D using the same tactics. Basically bullet time + insane processing power will give us the recording method used in th film (retitle to 'entertainment') industry.

4) Clothing
made from luminescent material that can display different information and clean itself will be amazingly helpful and will be yet something more which will reduce pollution.

That's pretty much the cream of the unpublished crop for this blog of mine.
I bet no one can wait until this time next year for another half-assed batch of reject-ideas.
*(Please, avoid miscontrueing my words. Hitler was an evil sinner. I'm not defending his actions with my H+friendly attitude.)

'I drink to my Annihilation'

Ok, this is a preface to stream of recorded thought.
Please excuse the disparity between my thoughts and my words. Their reconciliation will occur at the point where I become a world-class writer.

I drink to my annihilation is an Aldous Huxley quote.
It was inscribed on the Soma-cup that was passed around in one scene or another in Brave New World. Alex Jones said in his film Endgame that the modern US culture stems from what was featured in that book.

That BNW is a blueprint for the way things are going.
Transhumanism is here for us though, Alex.

I don't know why Alex Jones is hostile towards the ideas of H+, but I agree with him that it's a product of globalization.

So, what do I need to do. What are the main ideas of transhumanism and how can I integrate them into my life? The bottom line is I need to write about every single hole in modern day society transhumanism beams through.
Whether its the enormous fact that all systems consist more and more of data only, or if its intelligent design. Calling out the trans formative nature of man, and the essential goals of humanity that are quite dark and concealed.

I drink to my annihilation is reminiscent of the term 'immanentize the eschaton' which has become trade mark with Will Gibsons new comic Doktor Sleepless.

I have also to acknowledge some other facts, more John Morgan specific, that I tend to be slightly off center on the lightness-darkness chart - in that I'm slightly more comfortable thinking about the negative consequence then the positive. This means I constantly consider the negative reward of transhumanistic thinking than the positive. Or the reward being more valuable if only I can take advantage of it.

But these ideas in popular culture, and even in the pioneering for the idea of transhumanism, seem stronger when they are true to bother the negative and positive consequences. Saying that Transhumanstic thinking and the singularity are the apocalypse reinforce the skeptics position. But also, inspire optimism. for if the world is destroyed then we are finally able to build it in whichever way we see fit.

The future of our species and the merger with machine is the most powerful idea throughout recorded human history. Important ideas are only important if they're also dangerous.

More notes to benefit myself: I need to form a blog on the dark side of the transhumanism movement.
Having said that, I am devoted to creating a transhumanism manifesto. A piece of writing that includes outlines for all proposed technology and current research. It would expose how these ideas relate to the current and future Western social climate including how quickly new trends catch on.
I'm tempted to title such a document: "Countdown to the end of Humanity" and I'm planning it will kick off the new grinding blog.
This blog may or may not be the home of the Human Recording Project, and I'm still deciding whether or not to link it to an instructibles account.