Hello, bonjour to you. Another Sunday, another journey. Here we go. The complexity and scale of our civilization presents a challenge to coming up with a meaningful plan and executing it. Any good plan for our civilization has so many moving parts, that getting 8 billion people to contribute to every part isn’t feasible. So the question becomes: how do we get the right people to focus on creating and executing the parts of the plan that they are equipped to contribute to?
No doubt mixing in financial reward with the idealistic purity of this Existential Relevance inquiry exposes all sorts of possibilities to contamination. "The love of money is the root of all evil" according to the Apostle Paul (I thought it was "money is the root of all evil," but I looked it up to make sure and got the foregoing). I would posit that either the ideas market and further development of this project is done as you say with a promise of future pay, or that any money awarded be of a token amount at the discretion of the author (you) or that a future table or even hierarchy of commendation be created in lieu of money. People may be motivated by small amounts or recognition almost as much as by big amounts in some cases.
Michael, you ask "...how do we get the right people to focus on creating and executing the parts of the plan that they are equipped to contribute to? Liquid democracy seems to be an idea encompassing your quest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy whereby we assume decisions we are competent for.
Yep, familiar with it. I don't fully agree with "Voters in a liquid democracy have the right to vote directly on all policy issues" ... but the option to delegate votes is cool. Regardless, actually designing a functioning version of anything like liquid democracy is no small task. This group has been trying for a while: https://democracy.earth/
Very cool to see ETH used as its core engine, so much can be achieved when you start with the truth - the new capital...I note that PPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International is "trying to achieve their goals by the means of the established political system rather than just through activism." as you mention for your own initiative. But PPI seem to have stalled internally.
My approach is build a DAO around DNA stewardship, first with biobanks and DNA vitrification as a time machine, then with ectogenesis or equivalent, for sequential life cycles. Thus a very strong quid pro quo and rationale for the HU members.
I envision a strong UN and parliamentary system integrating liquid democracy, I used to work with these people https://www.unpacampaign.org/ .
I believe Starlink is the game changer our species has been missing - so that our birthplace can be our workplace, our ID secure within ETH.
"a DAO around DNA stewardship" sounds cool, but a bit sci fi in terms of getting significant traction within the next few decades. A parallel endeavor like cryonics is growing, but it's still VERY niche in terms of adoption: https://cryonics.org/member-statistics/
Nov 14, 2022·edited Nov 14, 2022Liked by Michael Weiss
A DAO is just a decentralized organization, and of course the ETH blockchain delivers that core today. Cryonics is a dead initiative begun by Robert Ettinger in 1962, which fascinated me. But I decided in the mid-70's that the Self lies within our DNA, and that preserving that makes cryonics an obsolete (and failed) idea. It was 1st gen and they hate me for saying that - always have.
My focus is personal regeneration, and as a former network designer I'm recommending a pathway. It depends only on human organization, ergo the importance of Humanism, to support my solution over centuries.
Well, there's preservation of a biological entity via DNA and then there's preservation of a biological entity + its continuous experience...which is the promise of cryonics.
No doubt mixing in financial reward with the idealistic purity of this Existential Relevance inquiry exposes all sorts of possibilities to contamination. "The love of money is the root of all evil" according to the Apostle Paul (I thought it was "money is the root of all evil," but I looked it up to make sure and got the foregoing). I would posit that either the ideas market and further development of this project is done as you say with a promise of future pay, or that any money awarded be of a token amount at the discretion of the author (you) or that a future table or even hierarchy of commendation be created in lieu of money. People may be motivated by small amounts or recognition almost as much as by big amounts in some cases.
Michael, you ask "...how do we get the right people to focus on creating and executing the parts of the plan that they are equipped to contribute to? Liquid democracy seems to be an idea encompassing your quest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy whereby we assume decisions we are competent for.
Yep, familiar with it. I don't fully agree with "Voters in a liquid democracy have the right to vote directly on all policy issues" ... but the option to delegate votes is cool. Regardless, actually designing a functioning version of anything like liquid democracy is no small task. This group has been trying for a while: https://democracy.earth/
Very cool to see ETH used as its core engine, so much can be achieved when you start with the truth - the new capital...I note that PPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International is "trying to achieve their goals by the means of the established political system rather than just through activism." as you mention for your own initiative. But PPI seem to have stalled internally.
My approach is build a DAO around DNA stewardship, first with biobanks and DNA vitrification as a time machine, then with ectogenesis or equivalent, for sequential life cycles. Thus a very strong quid pro quo and rationale for the HU members.
I envision a strong UN and parliamentary system integrating liquid democracy, I used to work with these people https://www.unpacampaign.org/ .
I believe Starlink is the game changer our species has been missing - so that our birthplace can be our workplace, our ID secure within ETH.
"a DAO around DNA stewardship" sounds cool, but a bit sci fi in terms of getting significant traction within the next few decades. A parallel endeavor like cryonics is growing, but it's still VERY niche in terms of adoption: https://cryonics.org/member-statistics/
A DAO is just a decentralized organization, and of course the ETH blockchain delivers that core today. Cryonics is a dead initiative begun by Robert Ettinger in 1962, which fascinated me. But I decided in the mid-70's that the Self lies within our DNA, and that preserving that makes cryonics an obsolete (and failed) idea. It was 1st gen and they hate me for saying that - always have.
My focus is personal regeneration, and as a former network designer I'm recommending a pathway. It depends only on human organization, ergo the importance of Humanism, to support my solution over centuries.
Well, there's preservation of a biological entity via DNA and then there's preservation of a biological entity + its continuous experience...which is the promise of cryonics.
Personally, I'd prefer a continuous experience :)