November 2024 Book Notes

We aim at several popular fronts, such as freedom (democracy) and financial independence (trojan horse for abundance thinking). At the point that the trojan horse enters, what is the difference between a trojan horse and a new reality? To get there, we discuss

• Paradigm shifts across 20 or so paradigms.
• Financial Freedom - new dream, realized for all's self-determination. Free at last.
• Resolution of the Metacrisis-Singularity Paradox
• Security paradigm - addressing base level of Maslow's pyramid via abundant production waste free. This is a resource conflict approach.
• Abundance mindset. Not hippyhit, but rigorous condition of effectiveness, and making a better world. Realizing an abundance civilization for the first time since PV energy fell below 50 cents per kWhr. PV Prices.
• Education paradigm - interdisciplinary generalist genius towards growth mindset of lifelong learning.
• Civilization Improvement - change paradigm from disaffected parties scuttlebutting in the aftermath of terror - to proactive Global Stewards who fix the world for a living. Requires shift in edu paradigm, otherwise people are too narrow-minded.
• Reinvent ethical behavior - when people buy Russian oil to fund the war, the same people wonder why Russia is continuing to invade Ukraine. Etc. Decoupling 'having mouths to feed' from unethical behavior.
• Solve democracy - nobody has yet solved for mob rule - where masses rightfully have the vote but are manipulated effectively through demagoguery. Today it is demagogues on steroids with social media, so Periclean Athens has failed for 30% or so of the population. To solve for authoritarianism, we teach growth mindset.
• Solve distribution. Nobody considers distribution of wealth through any integrated, essential program. It is time to change that. Open source distributed microfab enters as the new economy.
• Solve science. The population remains highly ignorant, with a surge in Flat Earthers etc. To this end, we reinvent integrated education, where unrelated snippets are replaces with holistic knowledge spanning all areas.
• Mental models. How to cultivate accurate mental models in an age when everything is becoming more fake. The trouble is, if fakeness is used by demagogues to gain power, that can be dangerous.
• Jobs - work life integration is natural. Unjobbing in a house where you have food and energy abundance.
• Microstates paradigm - when war ends, national boundaries no longer produce security and can be dissolved. Part of transition to unmitigated progress.
• Homo Deus - humans gain high skill close to former gods, suckling energy at Kardashev scale above 1.
• Collaboration paradigm - we become one with the universe, and thus learn to collaborate.