Found an interesting blog:
scott locklin:
http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2009/ ... -progress/he says:
I
think this particular article is also quite germane to this blog, as
it’s about the disturbing slow down in the rate of technological
progress we’ve experienced in my lifetime. I realize this is going to be
controversial, and it may seem insane since you’re reading about it on
my personal little network broadcast system, but it is an important
subject worthy of your consideration. Technological progress isn’t what
it used to be. Oh sure, the direction is remains generally positive
(though not always), but the rate of new innovations and human power
over nature seems to have slowed considerably. I don’t think I have any
simple answers as to why this is so, but I want people to think and talk
about it. As far as I know, there are no voices anywhere in the
blogosphere or any other popular media which are saying this, excepting
perhaps Charles Murray. Someone has to start the conversation, and that
someone apparently has to be me. Sure, you could dismiss this idea as
depressive rantings caused by economic apocalypse, but I actually have
had this idea in mind since 2003 or so, when I was procrastinating
writing up my Ph.D. thesis in the LBL library. I spent a week or so
reading the yearly journal, “Advances in computers” -a wonderful
experience that was probably more valuable than writing my thesis up. It
was also humbling in that there have been very few recent advances in
computers which aren’t simply advances in lithography.
If you’re a
scientist or technologist, obviously this should be an interesting
subject for you. If you’re a financial type: this should be even more
interesting for you, as economic progress is ultimately fueled by
technology and improvements in human power. I consider it the most
important subject of our time. Why aren’t we doing better?
I’m
impressed and humbled by the caliber of people who have read and
commented on my blog, so I hope some of you take the time to read and
think about this short piece, and maybe leave me some useful comments
for or against my thesis. Because I directed the article at a popular
audience, I skipped over a lot of technical details. Obviously computers
have made possible innovations like Supply Chain and Operations
Research type things, which are a form of progress, but not a
revolutionary one: things aren’t really much different. Keeping less
product on shelves isn’t really progress to my mind. Inventing, say,
double entry book keeping: that made stuff incredibly different from how
things worked before. Inventing trains and trucks to move product
around: that’s real progress too. Blogs are … well, they’re a sort of
democratization of technology: very positive, but not exactly progress.
Some wise-acre I spoke to had the nerve to use Twitter or other social
networking websites as an example of “progress.” If you are tempted to
do so, I would assert that you don’t know what the word “progress”
means. Anyhow, here is the article:
http://takimag.com/article/the_myth_of_ ... z1iX8riIl1 boiler-1
so I have been replying for years what must now be done: change the brain structure, change minds and mind circuits as in:
Re: can science and religion be reconciled?
Postby nameta9 » Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:13 am
nameta9 wrote:
Hence this justifies the "Scientific Program" of designing new
Brains and Minds having any possible interaction set with any possible
outside environment created for it, any possible pain/pleasure circuits
and so forth (the true evolution of technology, "Technology Achieved",
technology on steroids, as only the pain/pleasure circuits count in the
end and technology is only a means to achieve more pleasure than pain,
etc.), this justifies the fact that reality is just an event, a point
like event that can be emerged within any Interaction Set and
Information Set and Experience Set, since the "event" is only ever all
reality and truth, independent of any laws used to navigate it, nay, the
laws can be invented, can be any at all, hence science is truly
arbitrary as it pertains to only one set of interaction laws set up by
Natural Evolution with respect to this quirky, random chemical set
called Man.
In fact technology is at the end of the line,
progress is over, we won't be discovering or creating new fangled
things anymore like Electricity or Computers of Jet Planes and so forth.
New Smart Phones containing old hat functions like phones and cameras
and the internet just won't cut it anymore. At most we can replicate
millions of models, produce a huge number of items of the same time,
increase distribution and production of the old things we already have
(fill the third world with cars and computers and skyscrapers and so
forth), but we can't really invent any really new things anymore, we are
at the end of the line now. We can make trillions of old things (what
we should do anyways, we need huge increase of consumption and
production of all kinds of things and remember that consumption is way
more difficult to achieve than production, producing is easy, consuming
is hard because people are still too used to the Resource Scarcity
Mentality (not like the USA, the only real consmuer society), and all
the economists and politicians think that GDP grows by helping
corporations and production and competition and companies when in all
truth, GDP grows mostly when you hike up consumption hugely, consumption
should be the name of the game and more money in people's hands, not
companies and production and so forth, consumption is infinitely more
important than production and much harder to produce since it depends on
people's culture and mind and hesitation to buy and waste like crazy,
what we really need!) trillions of skyscrapers and rockets to planets
and TVs and computers and so forth, mostly trillions of examples and
permutations of mostly old ideas and concepts, but nothing really
radically new like the Jet Plane was, or the Rocket to the Moon was, or
the Automobile was and so forth.
In fact, you can really feel the
desperation of our civilization that can't really go forward anymore
(let alone all the political - social - economic problems that will
forever be intractable and without any solutions because the Man Brain
is simply a fighting against each other machine having will power
machine and so forth), boredom, not knowing what new exciting thing to
invent and so forth, what new possible market can be created, the
constant chant for Innovation and Startups and Research and so forth
hoping to gain something and so forth.
But the only real way
forward now is to proudly and boldly and bluntly modify the Man Brain,
the Observing Contraption on the top of our body, the Skull contents,
stick in chips and new designs, make the new brains do all kinds of
incredible new things, technology on steroids, technology achieved,
modify the Mind and Brain in infinitely new ways, create trillions of
new universes, all other past inventions and novelties will seem so tiny
and worth so little compared to this.
But it is as if our
Civilization is simply hesitating, waiting to make the jump, waiting and
hestitating and afraid to finally plunge into the real future: the
FUTURE OF WILDLY NEW BRAINS, MODIFIED BRAINS AND NEW SENSE ORGANS AND
EMOTION STATES AND CONTRAPTIONS AND LOGIC AND FREE PHYSICS AND SO FORTH,
THE FUTURE WHERE ALL OF THE PAST DISAPPEARS IN A JIFFY SINCE ALL THE
RULES OF THE GAME CHANGE 100 %, THE PLUNGE INTO NEW UNIVERSES AND
EXPERIENCE SETS AND INTERACTION SETS AND INFORMATION RELATIONSHIPS, ETC.
So
keep on waiting and hestitating civilization, keep on playing puny
games with old products and inventions, keep on devising new smart
phones with other cameras and old hat things instead of doing what must
be done: stick jet engines in the skull and mind, stick wild symbols and
circuits in brains, change the brains in infinitely new varieties and
types, do it man, you can do it, first gear - its all right, second gear
- hang on tight, third gear you're out of sight.
Then again,
even this theory and ideology may be a desperate attempt to keep on
producing an imaginary progress when progress is mostly terminated in
that modifying brains and minds will simply lead up pain and death since
biological contraptions are so complex and intractable that it cannot
be done: remember the three body problem can't be solved even with
supercomputers executing a trillion operations a second...
and in :
instantsingularity.blogspot.com
instantsingularity1.blogspot.com
instantsingularity3.blogspot.com
TARD
by nameta9 » Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:14 pm 
